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It Shall Certainly Not Bend and Crush Me Completely

Name: It Shall Certainly Not Bend and Crush Me Completely
Start: 2026-02-08T19:00:00
Location: Southbank Centre

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

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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...

Program

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 4

Participants

Adam Fischer

Conductor

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

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