Bristol Classical Players are well-established on the Bristol orchestral scene and regularly perform at St George's Hall, the Cathedral and in Cheltenham. A great opportunity to hear fine local musicians play one of the most famous pieces in music history!

This final concert in the series begins with Jon Trim’s Symphonia Pandemica; composed during the COVID-19 pandemic. This work charts a journey from darkness to light, reflecting fears being replaced by hope and, finally, joy as lockdowns came to an end.

This matches the emotional arc of the most famous symphony of all: Beethoven’s 5th, with which BEETHOVEN+ ends. The coiled fury of the first movement, with its famous ‘fate knocking on the door’ motif (da-da-da-DAAA) finally resolves in the finale into pure daylight. In E M Forster’s novel Howard’s End, Beethoven’s 5th is described as ‘the most sublime noise ever to penetrate into the ear of man’. Who, hearing this great work live, could disagree?

Conductor: Tom Gauterin
Leader: Anneka Sutcliffe

Programme

Trim Symphonia Pandemica
Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat Op 60
Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor Op 67

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