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Work type: Concert.

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.

9 Aug 24

Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L1235397737

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