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Prom 27: Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony

Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Proms 2024

Live at the Proms: the Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in Strauss' Alpine Symphony, Saariaho's Mirage, and Mozart's Jeunehomme Concerto with soloist Seong-Jin Cho.

Live at the Proms the Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in Strauss' Alpine Symphony, Saariaho's Mirage, and Mozart's Jeunehomme Concerto with soloist Seong-Jin Cho.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, presented by Andrew McGregor.

Kaija Saariaho: Mirage (12 mins)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major ‘Jeunehomme’ K271

c. 6.45pm
INTERVAL: To discuss Alpine tourism, Andrew McGregor is joined by Dr Seán Williams, a Â鶹ÊÓƵAV/AHRC New Generation Thinker who has made programmes for Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Radio 3 about a murder in Trieste in the 1760s, the idea of luxury, the rise and fall of the hairdresser. Seán is a Senior Lecturer in German and European Cultural History in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sheffield.

c. 7.05pm
Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony

Silja Aalto (soprano)
Anssi Karttunen (cello)
Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

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.

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Fri 9 Aug 2024 18:00
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Music Played

  • Kaija Saariaho

    Mirage

    Performer: Silja Aalto. Performer: Anssi Karttunen. Orchestra: Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto No. 9 In E Flat Major K.271

    Performer: Seong-Jin Cho. Orchestra: Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Richard Strauss

    Alphorn Op 15, No 3

    Performer: Felix Klieser. Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Christiane Karg.
    • Heimliche Aufforderung - Secret Invitation.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.
    • 5.

  • Richard Strauss

    Eine Alpensinfonie Op.64

    Orchestra: Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in F major, K138 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Van Kuijk Quartet.
    • Alpha.

Broadcast

  • Fri 9 Aug 2024 18:00
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