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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season - Prom 34 - Strauss, Mozart and Nielsen
Performance Date11 August 2014
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time19:32
Main PerformersFrancesco Piemontesi - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC National Orchestra of Wales
ConductorsThomas Søndergård
Set List'Tod und Verklärung', R Strauss,
'Burleske', R Strauss
INTERVAL
'Rondo in A Major for Piano and Orchestra, K386', Mozart,
'Symphony No.5', Nielsen
Performance NotesIn the first of his two concerts with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thomas Søndergård directs Nielsen's Fifth Symphony, shaped by the conflicts and oppositions of the First World War and touching on a bleak nostalgia that is also at the core of Strauss's tone-poem Tod und Verklärung ('Death and Transfiguration') – a musical dramatisation of the roaming thoughts of a dying artist.

Profundity is balanced by virtuosity in the 'complicated nonsense' of Strauss's youthful Burleske and Mozart's sunny Rondo in A major, both featuring former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Francesco Piemontesi.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53),
Programme (RAHE/1/2014/85),
Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41),
Proms Mini-Guide
Ticket Prices£5.00-£38.00
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2014/85BBC Proms 2014 - Prom 3411 August 2014
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work9894BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
DS/UK/1019British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC National Orchestra of Wales; 1935-; Welsh orchestra
DS/UK/6359Sondergard; Thomas (1969-); Danish conductor
DS/UK/19733Piemontesi; Francesco (1983-); Swiss-Italian pianist
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