Philharmonia Orchestra
Valcuha conducts Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier
Add to my Calendar 04-12-2014 19:30 04-12-2014 21:30 36 Philharmonia Orchestra A programme of breakthrough pieces that finds all three composers achieving new heights of creative genius. If the slow movement of Mozart's Jeunehomme (young man) Piano Concerto came close to breaking the bounds of Classical expression. Strauss's Don Juan took orchestral virtuosity to its outer limits. While Humperdinck rewrote the fairy-tale genre with his opera Hänsel und Gretel. Royal Festival Hall, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Royal Festival Hall
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Rd
London
SE1 8XX
England
Programme
Richard Strauss – Don Juan, Op.20
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto no.9 in E flat major 'Le Jeunehomme', K.271
Engelbert Humperdinck – Hansel and Gretel: Excerpts
Richard Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Performers
Juraj Valcuha – Conductor
Jonathan Biss – piano
Olena Tokar – soprano
Tara Erraught – mezzo-soprano
Philharmonia Orchestra
Programme Note
A programme of breakthrough pieces that finds all three composers achieving new heights of creative genius.
If the slow movement of Mozart's Jeunehomme (young man) Piano Concerto came close to breaking the bounds of Classical expression.
Strauss's Don Juan took orchestral virtuosity to its outer limits.
While Humperdinck rewrote the fairy-tale genre with his opera Hänsel und Gretel.