Prom 71: Boston Symphony Orchestra

Time: 7.30pm - c9.45pm

Venue ROYAL ALBERT HALL

Tickets £10-£45 price code C or Prom for £5

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James Levine, a long-standing collaborator with Elliott Carter, conducts the UK premiere of the three brief literary-inspired Illusions, having given their world premiere with his Boston orchestra in 2005. Tonight’s orchestra also gave the first performance, in 1944, of Bartók’s genre-defining Concerto for Orchestra, and completes its programme with Brahms’s hard-won First Symphony, dubbed by the conductor Hans von Bülow as 'Beethoven’s Tenth'.

Elliott Carter

Three Illusions for Orchestra (UK premiere) (9 mins)

Bartók

Concerto for Orchestra (40 mins)

Interval

Brahms

Symphony No. 1 in C minor (46 mins)

Boston Symphony Orchestra
James Levine conductor

Detailed notes about the music will be available one hour before the concert.

ABOUT THE MUSIC

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