Beethoven

A Candlelight concert at St Mary Le Strand Church on the Strand, in which pianists Warren Mailley-Smith and Maiko Mori play Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in an arrangement for piano four hands by Carl Czerny.

The programme centres on Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, performed in Carl Czerny's arrangement for two pianos playing four hands. The evening is given by Warren Mailley-Smith and Maiko Mori, who are both piano performers, and it also includes Mozart's Piano Sonata for four hands in C major, K521.

St Mary Le Strand Church is a church on the Strand in London. Alongside its role as a place of worship, it mainly hosts concerts, and this performance is part of the Candlelight series, with the music lit by candles.

The material for the event describes the arrangement as bringing a clear, intense reading to the work's opening motif, and it quotes Classic FM calling the performance stunning. The concert suits listeners who want to hear a familiar symphony in a smaller, keyboard-based form.