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Part of the BBC Proms. Beethoven's Fifth Symphony has one of classical music's most famous openings. This iconic four-note motif returns again and again. Is it a thunderclap - or fate, knocking at the door? Make up your own mind at a Prom that also features lush orchestrations of music by the Romantic composer Sergei Rachmaninov, plus a rhapsodic work for solo violin by pioneering Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – originally premiered in 1912, just weeks before the composer's tragic death at the age of just 37.| 19 Jul 23 | Royal Albert Hall Inner London, Greater London Performance Details => Venue archive |
