Philharmonia Orchestra: Dohnányi conducts Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

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Dohnányi conducts Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

Royal Festival Hall
Sun 5 Dec 2010 7:30pm

Christoph von Dohnányi

conductor

Angela Hewitt

piano

Schubert

Symphony No. 8 The Unfinished

Mozart

Piano Concerto No. 21, K467

Beethoven

Symphony No. 5

This evening’s concert is sponsored by the Friends of the Philharmonia Orchestra.

This evening’s concert is framed by two symphonies, written within fifteen years of each other and both pioneering in their testing of the classical symphony structure. Although Schubert’s Eighth Symphony was unfinished, it has become one of his most popular works, notable for its drawn-out, profound opening and alternating moods of melancholy and drama. The 'Fate knocking at the door' opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is even better known; it is a testimony to this most revolutionary of works that it still sounds fresh and exciting to the listener, more than 200 years after ETA Hoffmann declared it to be 'one of the most important works of the time'.