Philharmonia Orchestra: Jordan conducts in Switzerland

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Jordan conducts in Switzerland

Tonhalle, Zurich
Mon 7 May 2012 7:30pm

Philippe Jordan

conductor

Oliver Schnyder

piano

Brahms

Symphony No. 1

Weber

Konzertstück

Beethoven

Symphony No. 5

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is one of the most popular and best known compositions of classical music. Comprising of four movements, the work achieved its prodigious reputation soon after the first performance and it is a testimony to this most revolutionary of works that it still sounds fresh and exciting to the listener, more than 200 years after ETA Hoffmann declared it to be 'one of the most important works of its time'.

Brahms revered Beethoven and this admiration weighed so heavily on him that he struggled for decades with the idea of writing a symphony. Brahms himself declared that his First Symphony, from sketches to finishing touches, took 21 years, from 1855 to 1876 but although only received politely at its première it was soon being nicknamed ‘Beethoven’s Tenth’.