Name: Andris Nelsons Conducts Beethoven Symphonies 4 & 5
Start: 2025-01-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-01-17T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Boston Symphony Hall

Admin

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Andris Nelsons

Orchestra

Andris Nelsons Conducts Beethoven Symphonies 4 & 5

Boston

United States

Boston Symphony Hall

Andris Nelsons Conducts Beethoven Symphonies 4 & 5: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, op. 60 Beethoven (+1 More)

Public

Concert

Symphony No. 4

Symphony No. 5

Rahul Solomon

Approved

Beethoven composed his Fourth and Fifth symphonies almost concurrently, but they’re very different in their expressive impact. The Fourth is one of Beethoven’s warmest, most congenial works, sharing that mood with the Violin Concerto completed just after the symphony. The Fifth Symphony, by contrast, creates wonderful intensity through the famous four-note “fate” motif—perhaps the most famous musical fragment of all time—and resolves that tension in a triumphant finale.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble