It Shall Certainly Not Bend and Crush Me Completely
Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, SE1 8XX , [Venue Details]The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment pairs Beethoven’s defiant Fifth with the lively Fourth – described by Berlioz as having a ‘celestial sweetness’.
The Fifth Symphony picks up where the Eroica (No. 3) ends, in both psychological and musical senses.
Dark-toned, potent and radical, this is Beethoven the warrior putting on the armour of C minor to, as he writes to his brothers, ‘seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly not bend and crush me completely’. Its finale is triumphantly reinforced by the appearance of trombones, piccolo and contrabassoon for the first time in a symphony.
In the Fourth Symphony, meanwhile, we meet the Beethoven who was capable of so much lightness, intoxicated perhaps with the possibility of love.
Adam Fischer has quietly developed a reputation as one of the foremost interpreters of 18th- and 19th-century symphonic repertoire. His recording of all 104 Haydn symphonies in Esterhaza with his own Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra is the stuff of legends, and has only been amplified by his cycles of Mahler, Brahms and Beethoven.
Repertoire
- Beethoven: Symphony No.4
Interval
- Beethoven: Symphony No.5
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Admission
Min: £13.25
Max: £82.00
Event Type: seated
Seating: Reserved
Performer name: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Age restriction: For ages 7+, U12's must be accompanied by an adult
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It Shall Certainly Not Bend and Crush Me Completely
Sunday, 8 Feb 2026 @7.00pm
Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, SE1 8XXMore Information
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment pairs Beethoven’s defiant Fifth with the lively Fourth – described by Berlioz as having a ‘celestial sweetness’.
The Fifth Symphony picks up where the Eroica (No. 3) ends, in both psychological and musical senses.
Dark-toned, potent and radical, this is Beethoven the warrior putting on the armour of C minor to, as he writes to his brothers, ‘seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly not bend and crush me completely’. Its finale is triumphantly reinforced by the appearance of trombones, piccolo and contrabassoon for the first time in a symphony.
In the Fourth Symphony, meanwhile, we meet the Beethoven who was capable of so much lightness, intoxicated perhaps with the possibility of love.
Adam Fischer has quietly developed a reputation as one of the foremost interpreters of 18th- and 19th-century symphonic repertoire. His recording of all 104 Haydn symphonies in Esterhaza with his own Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra is the stuff of legends, and has only been amplified by his cycles of Mahler, Brahms and Beethoven.
Repertoire
- Beethoven: Symphony No.4
Interval
- Beethoven: Symphony No.5
Admission
Min: £13.25
Max: £82.00
Event Type: seated
Seating: Reserved
Performer name: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Age restriction: For ages 7+, U12's must be accompanied by an adult
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