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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season - Prom 12 - Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Leif Ove Andsnes
Performance Date26 July 2015
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time19:32
Main PerformersLeif Ove Andsnes - piano, director
Orchestra or BandMahler Chamber Orchestra
Set List'Octet', Stravinsky,
'Piano Concerto No.2 in B Flat Major', Beethoven
INTERVAL
'Piano Concerto No.5 in E Flat Major', Beethoven
Performance NotesLeif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra complete their cycle of Beethoven Piano Concertos with Nos. 2 and 5 – the composer’s first and final experiments in the genre. In No. 2 a spacious and lovely central Adagio is framed with Mozartean grace in the outer movements, while the Fifth is the composer’s last word on the subject – a musical emancipation of the soloist that anticipates the Romantic concertos of Beethoven’s successors. Looking to the musical past for inspiration once again, Stravinsky’s Octet pastiches the forms and textures of the 18th century, colouring them with a mood and mischief all his own.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2015/60),
Programme (RAHE/1/2015/71),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2015/37)
Ticket Prices£5-£57.00
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/jUNjQLwj9zHUG
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2015/71BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season - Prom 1226 July 2015
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work10256BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/18241Andsnes; Leif Ove (7 April 1970); Norwegian pianist and chamber musician
DS/UK/6527Mahler Chamber Orchestra; 1997-; Chamber orchestra
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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