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Prom 61: San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas
Part of the Proms 2015 Series
Add to my Calendar 31-08-2015 19:30 31-08-2015 21:30 36 Prom 61: San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas Chinese virtuoso Yuja Wang is the soloist in Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto - a work the composer intended to pose ‘fewer difficulties for the orchestra’ and to be ’more pleasing in its thematic material’ than his First. Beethoven’s emotionally charged ‘Eroica’ Symphony forms the second half - the groundbreaking symphony that would pave the way for the mighty Romantic works of Mahler and Bruckner. The concert opens with Charles Ives’s atmospheric Decoration Day, inspired by his father’s marching band. Royal Albert Hall, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Charles Ives – Symphony: New England Holidays: Decoration Day
Béla Bartók – Piano Concerto no.2, Sz.95
~ Interval ~
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no.3 in E flat major 'Eroica', Op.55
Performers
Michael Tilson Thomas – Conductor
Yuja Wang – piano
San Francisco Symphony
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Programme Note
Chinese virtuoso Yuja Wang is the soloist in Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto - a work the composer intended to pose ‘fewer difficulties for the orchestra’ and to be ’more pleasing in its thematic material’ than his First. Beethoven’s emotionally charged ‘Eroica’ Symphony forms the second half - the groundbreaking symphony that would pave the way for the mighty Romantic works of Mahler and Bruckner. The concert opens with Charles Ives’s atmospheric Decoration Day, inspired by his father’s marching band.