Prom 33: Sibelius, Grieg & Nielsen
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© Felix Broede/DG
Monday 8 August
7.30pm – c. 9.45pm
Royal Albert Hall
Classical for starters, Piano music
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Sibelius
Symphony No. 6 in D minor (28 mins) -
Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor (30 mins) -
Liszt
Etudes d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini, S140 (5 mins)
No. 3 in A flat minor, 'La campanella' (encore) - INTERVAL
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Nielsen
Symphony No. 4, 'Inextinguishable' (35 mins) -
Alfvén
Bergakungen, Op 37 (4 mins)
Herdsmaid's Dance (encore)
- Alice Sara Ott piano
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sakari Oramo conductor
Discover the music
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About this event
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra return to the Proms to play two contrasting symphonies by Sibelius and Nielsen, while critically acclaimed young pianist, Alice Sara Ott, makes her Proms debut in one of the most popular of all piano concertos - Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor.
Absent from the Proms since 2004, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is back with a new Chief Conductor, no stranger to these shores (as a former Music Director of the CBSO), and a suitably Nordic programme.
Sibelius claimed to be offering the public 'pure cold water' with music like his magical Sixth Symphony - other composers were, he said, 'engaged in the manufacture of cocktails'.
Nielsen's Fourth is a more extrovert piece, a celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit from the dark days of the First World War, complete with battling sets of timpani and earth-shattering climaxes.
Between the two symphonies, critically acclaimed young German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott makes her Proms debut in one of the most popular of all piano concertos.
Broadcasts
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Radio
Listen live on BBC Radio 3 and in HD Sound on the website. Listen online for 7 days after broadcast. Repeated on Radio 3 2pm 12 August 2011.
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Comment number 1.
vju13SSSS MMMMMMMMMMMM 00002011 - 01:August
Superb performance of the Grieg concerto. Good quality sound in 320kb High Def sound, but let down by microphones being too close to the piano pedals! Please could sound engineers try to decouple microphone from stage when Piano is used as pianist pedalling action was causing a boom that could be heard throughout performance?
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Comment number 2.
boilinthebag14SSSS MMMMMMMMMMMM 00002011 - 18:August
Currently playing catch up after holiday. What a good performance of the Nielsen, who has been sadly neglected in recent seasons.
Afraid I didn't rate the Grieg too highly, although it did improve after a first movement where I detected quite a few "bum" notes
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Comment number 3.
TonyB01SSSS MMMMMMMMMMMM 00002011 - 20:September
My first visit to the RAH this year. I've never heard the Grieg 'live' before. Popular as it is it would be easy to dismiss performances as hackneyed(?) but I found this refreshing if a little light. The Sibelius was very good and a shame it is not often heard it is a truly great piece with which one can be enveloped in an intense way. The Nielsen I have heard on CD many times but this performance came as new to me and I loved it for the first time and will listen again with 'new' ears. Again I feel that Nielsen is neglected. "Tack sa mycket" RSPO and Sakari Oramo. What a shame we had to wait for an encore to hear Swedish music...I look forward to a evening of Carl Michel Bellman songs & epistles at a future Prom...anything to avoid that dreadful Comedy Prom!
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