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Prom 57: Thomas Larcher, Wagner and Richard Strauss
Part of the BBC Proms 2016 Series
Add to my Calendar 28-08-2016 19:30 28-08-2016 21:30 36 Prom 57: Thomas Larcher, Wagner and Richard Strauss An Alpine Symphony combines the tunefulness, richness of orchestration and sheer unadulterated beauty of Richard Strauss’s character-based tonepoems with what is probably his most impressive piece of musical architecture. Whether depicting a bracing mountain climb or the slow formation of the mountain range itself, the work has a magnificence all of its own, particularly when resounding through the Royal Albert Hall. The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Semyon Bychkov scales its heights here, after Wagner’s unalloyed love songs for Mathilde Wesendonck and the first UK performance of Thomas Larcher’s Symphony No. 2. Royal Albert Hall, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Thomas Larcher – Symphony No 2
Richard Wagner – 5 Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme, WWV 91
~ Interval ~
Richard Strauss – An Alpine Symphony
Performers
Elisabeth Kulman – mezzo-soprano
Semyon Bychkov – Conductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Programme Note
An Alpine Symphony combines the tunefulness, richness of orchestration and sheer unadulterated beauty of Richard Strauss’s character-based tonepoems with what is probably his most impressive piece of musical architecture.
Whether depicting a bracing mountain climb or the slow formation of the mountain range itself, the work has a magnificence all of its own, particularly when resounding through the Royal Albert Hall. The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Semyon Bychkov scales its heights here, after Wagner’s unalloyed love songs for Mathilde Wesendonck and the first UK performance of Thomas Larcher’s Symphony No. 2.