Prom 31: Brahms, Bruckner & Strauss

10 Aug 2019, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Sat 10 Aug 2019 Next Event

Proms 2019 Prom 31: Brahms, Bruckner & Strauss

19:30 Sat 10 Aug 2019 Royal Albert Hall

Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra perform a programme of Austro-German orchestral classics with Bruckner鈥檚鈥楻omantic鈥� Symphony at its heart. Soprano Lise Davidsen joins them for a sequence of Strauss songs including the ecstatic 鈥楳orgen!鈥�.

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, 鈥楻omantic鈥�(68 mins)(1878鈥�80 version, ed. Nowak)

Performers

Lise Davidsen
soprano
soprano
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

Following their performance of Wagner, Mahler and Webern at last year鈥檚 Proms, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Principal Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen return with another programme of Austro-German classics.

Subtitled the 鈥楻omantic鈥�, Bruckner鈥檚 Symphony No. 4 is as vividly colourful as the composer鈥檚 original scenario for the work (later withdrawn) with its knights, maidens, hunting and dancing.

Brahms鈥檚 variations (also known as the 鈥楬aydn鈥� Variations) provide a vivacious opener, and prize-winning Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen joins the orchestra in a sequence of songs by Richard Strauss, including the ecstatic 鈥楳orgen!鈥�.

Approx. end time: 21:45

Image: Lise Davidsen 漏 Arno