Proms 2025 Beethoven’s Fifth - BBC Proms

25 Jul 2025, Royal Albert Hall

18:30 Fri 25 Jul 2025 Next Event

Beethoven’s Fifth

18:30 Fri 25 Jul 2025 Royal Albert Hall

Maxim Emelyanychev and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra perform Saint-Saëns’s ‘Egyptian’ Piano Concerto with Alexandre Kantorow, plus Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and selections from Rameau’s ballet Les Indes galantes

Programme

- - Jean‐Philippe Rameau
  - Les Indes galantes – suite(24 mins)
- - Camille Saint‐Saëns
  - Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, ‘Egyptian’(29 mins)
- - interval
- - Jay Capperauld
  - Bruckner’s Skull(16 mins)
- - Ludwig van Beethoven
  - Symphony No. 5 in C minor(31 mins)

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About This Event

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.

Broadcast on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer this season