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Prom 25: Storgårds conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fourth

Name: Prom 25: Storgårds conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fourth
Start: 2024-08-07T19:30:00
Location: Royal Albert Hall

BBC Philharmonic

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Few composers captured life’s struggles as vividly as Tchaikovsky. ‘This is Fate,’ wrote the composer in 1877 as he grappled with the opening notes of his Symphony No. 4. ‘It hangs above your head like the sword of Damocles.’ By the symphony’s final pages, Tchaikovsky had wrested hope from despair. John Storgårds conducts his BBC Philharmonic in this full-blooded symphony, after the delicate, white luminosity of Hans Abrahamsen’s Horn Concerto a...

Program

Jean Sibelius - Pohjola's Daughter

Composer

Robert Schumann - Genoveva

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4

Composer

Hans Abrahamsen - Horn Concerto

Participants

Stefan Dohr

Horn

John Storgårds

Conductor