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Performance

VenueRoyal Albert Hall
Also: Elgar Room
TownInner London
CountyGreater London
From9th August 2024
To9th August 2024
When18:00
Royal Albert Hall (V221)
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  • Date of change: 22 May 24 - T0440490890

Prom 27 - Strauss's An Alpine Symphony

Prom 27

Work:: Prom 27 (S352)

Part of the BBC Proms.

Production:: Strauss's An Alpine Symphony (T0440490890)

When the 14-year-old Richard Strauss got caught in a storm, lost in the mist, soaked by the rain or blistered by the sun while out mountaineering, his response was to sit at the piano and improvise a musical description of the experience. That sowed the seeds for a work born 35 years later: An Alpine Symphony. This spectacular symphony, which calls for an orchestra of 130 musicians - including wind machine, thunder machine, cowbells, organ and offstage brass - will surely raise the roof of the Royal Albert Hall. But only after Mozart - at his most charming in the Piano Concerto No. 9 - and the late Kaija Saariaho's Mirage, a hypnotic snapshot of womanhood for soprano, cello and orchestra. There will be an interval.
Performer Silja Aalto (soprano)
Performer Anssi Karttunen (cello)
Performer Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Company BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Sakari Oramo

Listing:: L1235397737




Strauss's An Alpine Symphony

When the 14-year-old Richard Strauss got caught in a storm, lost in the mist, soaked by the rain or blistered by the sun while out mountaineering, his response was to sit at the piano and improvise a musical description of the experience. That sowed the seeds for a work born 35 years later: An Alpine Symphony. This spectacular symphony, which calls for an orchestra of 130 musicians - including wind machine, thunder machine, cowbells, organ and offstage brass - will surely raise the roof of the Royal Albert Hall. But only after Mozart - at his most charming in the Piano Concerto No. 9 - and the late Kaija Saariaho's Mirage, a hypnotic snapshot of womanhood for soprano, cello and orchestra. There will be an interval.

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