Details
Royal Festival Hall
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Rd
South Bank
London
SE1 8XX
England
Programme
Joseph Haydn – Symphony no.88 in G major, Hob.I:88
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concerto no.5 in E flat major 'Emperor', Op.73 (arr. Lachner)
~ Interval ~
Carl Nielsen – Symphony no.4, Op.29
Performers
Paavo Jarvi – Conductor
Martin Helmchen – piano
Philharmonia Orchestra
Programme Note
Paavo Järvi's Nielsen series continues with The Inextinguishable, a bracing celebration of the 'elemental will to live'. The work climaxes in a thrilling duel between two sets of timpani.
Such was Beethoven's iron-clad will that he completed his mighty Emperor Concerto as the walls of Vienna were crumbling around him and his hearing was fast-fading.