BBC Proms 2023

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The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

BBC Proms: 2023: Prom 7: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

Prom 7: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

2023

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Live at the BBC Proms: Tadaaki Otaka conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Live at the BBC Proms: Tadaaki Otaka conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Beethoven and Rachmaninov. Elena Urioste is the soloist in Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto.

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Tadaaki Otaka perform Beethoven and Rachmaninov, and Elena Urioste is soloist in Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto.

Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

c. 7.00pm
Rachmaninov, orch. Respighi: Five Études-tableaux
Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto in G minor, Op 80

c. 8.15pm
Interval: Penny Gore talks to pianist and musicologist Dr Samantha Ege about the composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who attended the first Pan-African conference held in London in 1900, made three tours of the United States where he was received by President Theodore Roosevelt.

c. 8.35pm
Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op 67

Elena Urioste (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor) 

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony has one of classical music’s most famous openings. This iconic four-note motif returns again and again. Is it a thunderclap – or fate, knocking at the door? Make up your own mind at a Prom that also features lush orchestrations of music by the Romantic composer Sergey Rachmaninov, plus a rhapsodic work for solo violin by pioneering Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – originally premiered in 1912, just weeks before the composer’s tragic death at the age of just 37.

BBC Proms: 2023

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