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Proms 2024
3 Aug 2022, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2022 Prom 23: Relaxed Prom – Beethoven’s Fifth

Prom 23
Prom 23: Relaxed Prom – Beethoven’s Fifth
11:00 Wed 3 Aug 2022 Royal Albert Hall
Tom Service and the Aurora Orchestra give an illustrated guide to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony – before the orchestra performs the entire symphony from memory, with founder-conductor Nicholas Collon.
Tom Service and the Aurora Orchestra give an illustrated guide to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony – before the orchestra performs the entire symphony from memory, with founder-conductor Nicholas Collon.

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Are these the most famous four notes in history? Everyone knows the beginning of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, but the real miracle has barely started – and today, with the help of Nicholas Collon and his sensational Aurora Orchestra, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3’s Tom Service takes it all to pieces and shows you how it works. There’ll be live musical examples, and a relaxed and informal atmosphere: a journey into the mind of a genius, with people who love this music and can’t wait to share it. And then Aurora plays the whole symphony from memory. No sheet music, no inhibitions, just audience, performers and some of the most communicative music ever imagined. It doesn’t get more direct than this.

There will be no interval

Audio-described by Timna Fibert
British Sign Language-interpreted by Angie Newman.
Relaxed performances

Image: Nicholas Collon © Chris Christodoulou/³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ