Disc 2 of this double album of Beethoven’s music is devoted to his 5th Symphony and excerpts from Egmont. The first disc is a world premiere recording of The General, a piece based on an original idea by Maestro Nagano, which he premiered with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in 2007. Scored for orchestra, soprano, chorus and narrator, it brings together excerpts from works by Beethoven interspersed with readings of an original text by author, critic and musicologist Paul Griffiths. The narration pays tribute to Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire and recounts the events that took place in Rwanda in 1994. Internationally renowned Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka, actor Maximilian Schell and the OSM Chorus under the direction of Marika Kuzma also took part in the recording.