TY - JOUR T1 - EDO — encore JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 791 LP - 791 DO - 10.3399/bjgp09X472791 VL - 59 IS - 567 AU - Michael Lasserson Y1 - 2009/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/59/567/791.abstract N2 - ‘The improbable we can manage; the impossible may take a little longer’ was a thought which came vividly to mind when the programme for last summer's concert by the European Doctors Orchestra in Poznan was fixed — Beethoven Nine, no less. Some cackled in amused disbelief at the choice; others started practising at once; while others muttered about cheek and impudence and sheer bloody chutzpah as they remembered that even the great Toscanini did not dare to record it until his eighties — and here was a bunch of amateurs proposing to perform it on 3 days of rehearsal. Ever since its founding in 2004, the orchestra has pushed itself to its absolute limits in its attacks on the commanding heights of the symphonic repertoire with a commensurate rise in performing standards beyond anything its founders could have … ER -