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ѿý Proms: Beethoven’s Fifth

Live at the ѿý Proms: The Scottish Chamber Orchestra & conductor Maxim Emelyanychev with pianist Alexandre Kantorow who performs Saint‐Saëns' ‘Egyptian’ concerto.

Live at the ѿý Proms: The Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Maxim Emelyanychev perform Rameau, Capperauld & Beethoven's 5th symphony, and are joined by Alexandre Kantorow for Saint‐Saëns' ‘Egyptian’ concerto.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Jean‐Philippe Rameau: Les Indes galantes – suite
Camille Saint‐Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, ‘Egyptian’

c. 7.30pm
Interval
The composer Jay Capperauld joins Ian Skelly live at the Royal Albert Hall to discuss the importance of death masks in 19th Century culture.

c.7.50pm
Jay Capperauld: Bruckner’s Skull
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor

The lure of the East runs through this Prom given by Maxim Emelyanychev and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. French pianist and star of the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony, Alexandre Kantorow is the soloist in Saint-Saëns’s ‘Egyptian’ Piano Concerto – a vivid musical travelogue, lively with chirping crickets and croaking frogs – while a selection from Rameau’s ballet Les Indes galantes offers sonic snapshots from Peru, Turkey, Persia and America. Fate knocks loudly at the door in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, answered with defiant musical optimism, but it’s Death who gets the final word in Jay Capperauld’s Bruckner’s Skull.

Release date:

2 hours, 45 minutes

Broadcast

  • Fri 25 Jul 2025 18:30

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