Friday 25 July 2025 at 6:30pm - 11pm

Beethoven 5th

Royal Albert Hall

BBC Proms presents: Beethoven’s Fifth

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- Sae¨ns’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

Programme

Rameau Les Indes galantes – suite 24’

Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, ‘Egyptian’ 29’

Interval

Jay Capperauld Bruckner’s Skull 16’ 

Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C major 31’

Alexandre Kantorow piano

Scottish Chamber Orchestra