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Prom 27: Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony

Name: Prom 27: Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony
Start: 2024-08-09T18:00:00
Location: Royal Albert Hall

BBC Symphony Orchestra

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When the 14-year-old Richard Strauss got caught in a storm, lost in the mist, soaked by the rain or blistered by the sun while out mountaineering, his response was to sit at the piano and improvise a musical description of the experience. That sowed the seeds for a work born 35 years later: An Alpine Symphony. This spectacular symphony, which calls for an orchestra of 130 musicians – including wind machine, thunder machine, cowbells, organ and of...

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 9 (Jeunehomme)

Composer

Richard Strauss - An Alpine Symphony

Kaija Saariaho - Mirage

Participants

Seong-Jin Cho

Piano

Sakari Oramo

Conductor

Anssi Karttunen

Cello