Sat 10 Aug 2019

• 17:45

  Proms Plus Talk

  Imperial College Union

  William Mival, Head of Composition at the Royal College of Music, joins writer Stephen Johnson to discuss Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 and the challenges of writing symphonies in the late 19th century.

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• 19:30

  Prom 31: Brahms, Bruckner & Strauss

  Royal Albert Hall

  Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra perform a programme of Austro-German orchestral classics with Bruckner’s ‘Romantic’ Symphony at its heart. Soprano Lise Davidsen joins them for a sequence of Strauss songs including the ecstatic ‘Morgen!’.

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  Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra perform a programme of Austro-German orchestral classics with Bruckner’s ‘Romantic’ Symphony at its heart. Soprano Lise Davidsen joins them for a sequence of Strauss songs including the ecstatic ‘Morgen!’.

  Programme

  • • • Johannes Brahms
      • Variations on the St Anthony Chorale(18 mins)
    • • Richard Strauss
      • Four Songs, Op. 27(13 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Anton Bruckner
      • Symphony No 4 in E flat major 'Romantic'(68 mins)(1878–80 version, ed. Nowak)

  Performers

  • Lise Davidsen

    soprano
    soprano
  • Philharmonia Orchestra
  • Esa‐Pekka Salonen

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Johannes Brahms
  • Richard Strauss
  • Anton Bruckner

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