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Prom 26: Beethoven, Brahms and Sarah Gibson

Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms: 91Èȱ¬ Philharmonic and Anja Bihlmaier in music by Brahms and Sarah Gibson. They are joined by Tobias Feldmann for Beethoven's Violin Concerto.

Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms: 91Èȱ¬ Philharmonic and Anja Bihlmaier in music by Brahms and Sarah Gibson. They are joined by Tobias Feldmann for Beethoven's Violin Concerto.

Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major

c. 8.20pm
INTERVAL: Before Sarah Gibson’s ‘warp & weft’, and after her untimely death last month at the age of 38, Georgia Mann talks to Leah Broad about Sarah’s work and the legacy of women composers.

c. 8.40pm
Sarah Gibson: warp and weft
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor

Tobias Feldmann (violin)
91Èȱ¬ Philharmonic
Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

For Brahms, composing music was a quest to balance head and heart. The composer’s final symphony is the most exquisite example of that mission, a piece as radiant as poetry and as perfect as a mathematical equation. In tonight’s Prom Brahms’s work of Apollonian perfection is balanced by the outpouring of joy that is Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, plus Sarah Gibson’s warp & weft, inspired by the work of Canadian artist Miriam Schapiro. Tobias Feldmann makes his Proms debut for this concert with the 91Èȱ¬ Philharmonic under Anja Bihlmaier.

2 hours, 44 minutes

Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Concerto In D Major Op.61

    Performer: Tobias Feldmann. Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Philharmonic. Conductor: Anja Bihlmaier.
  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'amour

    Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Philharmonic. Conductor: Anja Bihlmaier.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Der Wald: X. Scene IX

    Singer: Natalya Romaniw. Singer: Claire Barnett-Jones. Singer: Robert Murray. Conductor: John Andrews. Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra.
    • Smyth: Der Wald.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 10.
  • Rebecca Clarke

    Midsummer Moon

    Performer: Jonathan Rees. Performer: Kathron Sturrock.
    • Rebecca Clarke.
    • Gamut Classics.
    • 7.
  • Deborah Pritchard

    Wall of Water

    Performer: Harriett Mackenzie. Orchestra: English Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kenneth Woods.
    • Nimbus.
  • Gabriela Ortiz

    Clara

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
  • Sarah Gibson

    Warp And Weft

    Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Philharmonic. Conductor: Anja Bihlmaier.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 4 In E Minor Op.98

    Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Philharmonic. Conductor: Anja Bihlmaier.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in C minor, Op 18 No 4 - 1st movement, Allegro, ma non tanto

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Decca.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue (Fantasia & Fugue in A minor, BWV 904)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Thomas Adès

    Les tours de passe-passe (Three Studies from Couperin)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Thomas Adès.
    • Ades: Tevot; Violin Concerto etc..
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Thu 8 Aug 2024 19:30

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