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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 74 - Vienna Philharmonic - Brahms, Mozart and Beethoven
Performance Date8 September 2017
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:33
Main PerformersEmanuel Ax - piano
Orchestra or BandVienna Philharmonic
ConductorsMichael Tilson Thomas
Set List'Variations on the St Anthony Chorale', Brahms,
'Piano Concerto No.14 in E Flat Major', Mozart
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.7 in A Major', Beethoven
ENCORE
'Impromptu in A Minor opus 142, No.2', Shubert,
'On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring', Delius
'Hungarian Dances in G Minor', Brahms
Performance NotesMichael Tilson Thomas and pianist Emanuel Ax join the Vienna Philharmonic for the orchestra’s second concert this season – a programme filled with song and dance.
Wagner famously described Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 as ‘the apotheosis of the dance’, and it’s hard to hear the breathless Scherzo or exuberant finale without becoming swept up in the work’s restless energy.

That energy also invigorates Brahms’s Variations, taking a theme once thought to be by Haydn and transforming it by turns into a graceful sicilienne and a swaying, syncopated dance.

For Mozart it is song that offers the inspiration for his dramatic Piano Concerto No. 14, with its arching melodies and almost operatic musical dialogues between soloist and orchestra.

This performance concluded with a standing ovation.

Queues formed for the Last Night of the Proms.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2017/47a),
Programme (RAHE/1/2017/119),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2017/36),
Posters (RAHE/2/2017/28, 32)
Ticket Prices£6-£70.00
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2017/119BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 74 - Vienna Philharmonic - Brahms, Mozart and Beethoven8 September 2017
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work10965BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1252Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; 1842-; Austrian orchestra
DS/UK/11102Ax; Emanuel (8 June 1949); Ukranian-born American classical pianist
DS/UK/7662Thomas; Michael Tilson (1944-); American conductor, composer, pianist
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