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Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony

The LPO launches its new season with a concert including music by George Benjamin, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven with pianist Yefim Bronfman.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra launches its new season with concert of musical favourites. Yefim Bronfman joins the orchestra for the grandest of Beethoven's piano concertos, the fifth, before the LPO takes centre stage with Tchaikovsky's fate-ridden fifth symphony. And to start, a work by the LPO's Composer in Residence, George Benjamin.

Recorded last week at the Royal Festival Hall, and presented by Ian Skelly.

George Benjamin: Ringed by the Flat Horizon
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major Op.73, 'Emperor'
Interval
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E minor Op.64

Yefim Bronfman (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

Release date:

2 hours, 14 minutes

On radio

Wed 1 Oct 2025 19:30

Broadcast

  • Wed 1 Oct 2025 19:30