Sydney Symphony - Beethoven 5 Tickets Sydney

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At the end of the Doctor Atomic Symphony, John Adams gives us powerful but sombre music. In the original opera it accompanies a John Donne sonnet: “Batter my heart, three-person’d God”. It’s music for a scientist in awe and fear of what he’s done, a man struggling with conscience.

Respite comes in the form of Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto, the music that Liszt said was “of a perfection almost ideal… now radiant with light, now full of tender pathos.”

The second half of the concert begins with the most famous four notes in the world, the notes that Beethoven is supposed to have said were like Fate knocking at the door. The emotion, the awe and the struggle couldn’t be more intense, and no matter how well you know the Fifth Symphony, this will be your chance to hear it anew.