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It Shall Certainly Not Bend and Crush Me Completely
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The Fifth Symphony picks up where the Eroica (No. 3) ends, in both psychological and musical senses. Dark-toned, potent and radical, this is Beethoven the warrior putting on the armour of C minor to, as he writes to his brothers, “seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly not bend and crush me completely”. The indefatigable opening motif provides a crucible for an unprecedented unity of invention throughout. The Fifth was not finished until 18...
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1 dates (8 Feb - 8 Feb)
Feb
8
Sun
7:00 pm
Southbank Centre
London, United Kingdom
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