Prom 69 (part 2): Cleveland Orchestra
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, a Prom featuring the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Most concludes with a performance of Brahms's Symphony No 2 in D, Op 73.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Donald Macleod
Franz Welser-M枚st and Cleveland Orchestra live at the 91热爆 Proms with music by Brahms and a UK premiere of a new work by J枚rg Widmann.
Brahms: Tragic Overture
J枚rg Widmann: Teufel Amor (UK premiere)
7.50pm Interval
8.10pm
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-M枚st (conductor)
The Cleveland Orchestra begins its second concert at the 91热爆 Proms featuring music by Brahms and J枚rg Widmann with Brahms's Tragic Overture, a work which lives up to its name with turbulent intensity. This year's cycle of Brahms symphonies is brought to a conclusion with a performance of the sunny Second. The composer was in unusually high spirits while composing it, joking with his publisher, 'I have never written anything so sad'. The result, in fact, sets aside Brahms's habitual seriousness and dramatic tensions in an open-hearted score of great warmth and appeal. In between these two works is young German J枚rg Widmann's Teufel Amor - a musical account of the contradictions, tensions and resolutions of love, inspired by Schiller's lost poem.
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Brahms: Symphony No. 2
Stephen Johnson with a personal recommendation from recordings of Brahms' second symphony
Music Played
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Welser鈥怣枚st. -
Encore
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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 1
Performer: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Welser鈥怣枚st.
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Broadcast
- Mon 8 Sep 2014 20:1091热爆 Radio 3
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