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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Johannes Brahms – Academic Festival Overture, Op.80
Jorg Widmann – Flûte en suite
~ Interval ~
Johannes Brahms – Symphony no.1 in C minor, Op.68
Performers
Joshua Smith – flute
Franz Welser-Möst – Conductor
Cleveland Orchestra
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Programme Note
The Cleveland Orchestra is one of America’s great ensembles. After an absence of almost a decade it returns to the Proms under Music Director Franz Welser-Möst for the first of two concerts.
If Brahms’s stormy and intricately structured First Symphony sees the composer at his most serious and structurally ambitious, his Academic Festival Overture is a rare example of his levity - an elegantly constructed musical thank-you-letter to Breslau University, taking its themes from boisterous student songs.
At the centre of the programme is a concerto commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra for its principal flautist Joshua Smith. Rejecting anything too grandiose, young German composer Jörg Widmann has opted for a suite of dance movements - playful, referential and imaginatively disorienting.