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4 Oct 2017, Barbican, London
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91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2017-18 Season Bruch's Concerto for Two Pianos & Haydn's Farewell Symphony

91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra
Bruch's Concerto for Two Pianos & Haydn's Farewell Symphony
19:30 Wed 4 Oct 2017 Barbican, London
An Austro-German programme of music past and present with UK firsts for works by Larcher and Bruch. Haydn bids farewell as only he could.
An Austro-German programme of music past and present with UK firsts for works by Larcher and Bruch. Haydn bids farewell as only he could.

Programme

Concert Information

A programme of variety and invention from a quartet of Austro-German composers opens with music by a 91Èȱ¬ SO favourite, Thomas Larcher (whose Symphony made such an impact at the 2016 91Èȱ¬ Proms). It is followed by Bruch’s Double Piano Concerto (with two of today’s most exciting young pianists), a work from 1912 of unashamed Romantic sensibility. Anton Webern’s exquisite Six Pieces from two years earlier show a very different musical language.

The concert ends with a rare chance to hear Haydn’s Farewell Symphony with its closing plea to the composer’s employer to move his court back to Vienna – all these years later it retains its powerful originality, invention and humour.