Name: Edinburgh International Festival: Beethoven's Fifth
Start: 2021-08-15T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-08-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Usher Hall

Admin

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Marin Alsop

Orchestra

Edinburgh International Festival

Instrumentalist

Laura Samuel

Violin I

Edinburgh International Festival: Beethoven's Fifth

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

Usher Hall

Public

Concert

Strum

A Spell For Green Corn - The MacDonald Dances

Symphony No. 5

Jnanakumar P

Approved

What is almost certainly the most famous symphony ever written forms the climax of this wide-ranging concert with Marin Alsop, herself a regular and much-admired International Festival visitor.

From its unmistakably forceful opening – thought by many to symbolise fate knocking at the composer’s door – Beethoven’s Fifth guides you through turmoil and mystery, only to emerge in a triumphant climax of joy and optimism. It’s never more powerful than when experienced live, in the company of some of Scotland’s most accomplished musicians.

Before Beethoven’s pioneering symphonic journey, A Spell of Green Corn by Orkney resident composer Peter Maxwell Davies celebrates the islands’ ancient tradition of a fiddler blessing the furrow with a tune before crops are planted. It’s shot through with Scottish folk music and vivid evocations of storm-lashed Orcadian landscapes, building to a scene of celebration.

Alsop opens the concert with the unstoppable dance rhythms of the folk- and rock-inspired Strum by fellow New Yorker Jessie Montgomery, one of the USA’s most inspiring young composers.

English

Edinburgh International Festival: Beethoven's Fifth by Montgomery, Jessie, Davies, Beethoven, Fra (2021/2021), Dirigent Marin Alsop, Usher Hall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Forestillingkreditter (Ensemble & produksjonsteam )

Instrumentering

Ensemble

Program, Informasjon & Sammendrag

Bilder

Videre lesning

Forestillingsdatoer og spillesteder

Sted