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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Richard Strauss – Festival Prelude
Richard Strauss – Deutsche Motette, Op.62
Richard Strauss – Four Last Songs, TrV 296
~ Interval ~
Edward Elgar – Symphony no.2 in E flat major, Op.63
Performers
Inger Dam-Jensen – soprano
Vasily Petrenko – Conductor
BBC Singers
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
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Programme Note
Two rarely heard works continue our 150th-anniversary celebration of Richard Strauss. Scored for organ and an orchestra calling for no fewer than 10 trumpets (six offstage), the Festival Prelude packs symphonic weight into its brief duration.
It is matched for impact by the Deutsche Motette - a concerto for choir by any other name: its vocal lines trace the same expansive arcs and arabesques as the composer’s exquisite, autumnal Four Last Songs. Maintaining the mood of late-Romantic nostalgia, Elgar’s Second Symphony delights in flexible chromaticism, its shifting moods coloured in delicate shades.