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Playing Beethoven's Fifth

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29/05/2016

BBC Four - Playing Beethoven's Fifth

Performed by Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.

Shot on location in St John's Smith Square in London, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique perform Beethoven's iconic Fifth Symphony.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique perform the world's most iconic piece of classical music, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
 
Bringing out all the revolutionary fervour that Gardiner believes underpins the work and performing on period instruments of Beethoven's day, this performance brings us an authentic re-imagination of the sounds Beethoven's original audiences would have heard. 

Shot on location in St John's Smith Square, the performance looks and sounds stunning.
 
Ahead of the performance, Gardiner and the principals of the orchestra discuss the issues in trying to breathe new life into such a famous piece and how their period instruments transform the symphony's sound.

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