Event listing: The Birmingham Beethoven Cycle: Symphonies 4 & 5 | Symphony Hall | Wed 9 Jan 2013 at 19:30

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Symphony HallBroad Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B1 2EA, United Kingdom

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Programme

Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)	Symphony no. 4 in B flat major, Op.60
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)	Ah! perfido, Op.65
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)	Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op.67

Performers

Andris Nelsons	Conductor
Carolyn Sampson	Soprano
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

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CBSO and Andris Nelsons: Beethoven 4 and 5

Rohan Shotton, 9th January

Andris Nelsons passed the halfway stage of his Birmingham Beethoven cycle with brilliantly muscular accounts of the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies and a glossy performance of the concert aria Ah! Perfido.The CBSO made a compelling case for the Fourth Symphony, an arguably overlooked work described by Schumann as sitting between the “Two Norse giants” that are the Third and Fifth.

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