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Beethoven’s dramatic and heroic Egmont Overture is well-known and much loved. However, very few listeners know the extensive incidental music that Beethoven also wrote Goethe’s drama Egmont. Gustavo Dudamel gives the audience the opportunity to hear how vividly the composer depicts the fate of the Dutch prince Egmont in music: his triumphs, his love, his failure.


Fate also plays a central role in Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, symbolised by a relentless motif that runs through the entire work. The composer uses it to mirror his own struggles with himself and the world – passionately, stirringly, movingly.


Program


Ludwig van Beethoven
Incidental music for Goethe's Egmont op. 84


N. N. speaker, N. N. soprano


Intermission


Peter Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5 in E minor op. 64
Additional information
Participating artists
Berliner Philharmoniker
Gustavo Dudamel
Dates
June 2025
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