Prom 39: R. Strauss, Rameau, Mozart and Bernard Rands

15 Aug 2014, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Fri 15 Aug 2014 Next Event

Proms 2014 Prom 39: R. Strauss, Rameau, Mozart and Bernard Rands

19:30 Fri 15 Aug 2014 Royal Albert Hall

Rameau鈥檚 opera Les Indes galantes and Strauss鈥檚 tone-poem Ein Heldenleben were notorious flops at their premieres, yet both are now recognised as peaks of their genre. The 麻豆官网首页入口 Scottish Symphony Orchestra take us from 18th-century France to 蹿颈苍-诲别-蝉颈猫肠濒别 Germany (with a quick stop-off in Chelsea, where the 8-year-old Mozart composed his First Symphony) in a concert that also includes the UK premiere of Bernard Rands鈥檚 Piano Concerto.

Programme

- - Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau
  - Les Indes galantes(16 mins)鈥� suite
- - Bernard Rands
  - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra(25 mins)UK premiere
- - interval
- - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  - Symphony No. 1 in E flat major, K16(13 mins)
- - Richard Strauss
  - Ein Heldenleben(45 mins)

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Rameau鈥檚 opera Les Indes galantes and Strauss鈥檚 tone-poem Ein Heldenleben were both flops at their premieres, yet they soon won over a public suspicious of the new. The 麻豆官网首页入口 Scottish Symphony Orchestra tackles both works, taking us from 18th-century France to 蹿颈苍-诲别-蝉颈猫肠濒别 Germany 鈥撎� with a quick stop-off in Chelsea, where the 8-year-old Mozart composed his First Symphony. Former 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3 New Generation Artist Jonathan Biss gives the UK premiere of Bernard Rands鈥檚 colourful new Piano Concerto, written for Biss himself.

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