Beethoven 5

Beethoven’s timeless 5th Symphony is performed alongside his Coriolan overture and Unsuk Chin’s contemporary work influenced by the great composer.

In this matinee concert, the original power and innovation of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony will be cast in high relief by Unsuk Chin’s subito con forza, a work inspired by Beethoven’s trail-blazing and boundary-pushing genius.

While the 1804 play the Coriolan Overture was written for is long forgotten, the incidental music Beethoven composed has stood the test of time as a dark. stormy example of Beethoven’s genius.

Unsuk Chin’s subito con forza, which translates to suddenly, with power, was composed in 2020 as a tribute to the great composer and works as a contemporary bridge between the two other works performed in this concert.

Are there four more famous notes in classical music? Beethoven wrote his famous Fifth Symphony between 1804 and 1808. The four-note opening motif is commonly thought to be fate knocking on the door, although there is little evidence that this was what Beethoven had intended. Author E.T.A. Hoffman, a contemporary of Beethoven’s, wrote that the Fifth Symphony “sets in motion the machinery of awe, of fear, of terror, of pain, and awakens that infinite yearning which is the essence of Romanticism.”