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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2016 - One Hundred and Twenty Second Season - Prom 26 - BBC Symphony Orchestra and Knussen
Performance Date4 August 2016
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:34
Main PerformersPeter Serkin - piano
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsOliver Knussen,
Jonathan Berman (off-stage conductor)
Set List'Piano Concerto No.2 in B Flat Major', Brahms
INTERVAL
'Der Nächtliche Wanderer', R de Leeuw
Performance NotesWhen Brahms came to write his Second Piano Concerto more than two decades after his First, out went the confident swagger of a man in his prime and in came a feeling of intimacy and expectation. Oliver Knussen balances the Brahms with the far-flung world of Der nächtliche Wanderer (‘The Night Wanderer’) by Dutch composer and conductor Reinbert de Leeuw. This deftly coloured symphonic poem has been described as ‘a bath of beauty’ and ‘a high-density monument in music’.

UK premiere of 'Der Nächtliche Wanderer', Reinbert de Leeuw. The perfomance included off-stage ensemble, taped sounds such as a tolling bell and a barking dog and the Holderlin poem itself. The piece also quoted Wagner's deathbed piano piece and a sonata by Galina Ustvolskaya.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2016/50),
Programme (RAHE/1/2016/75),
Mini-Guide (RAHE/6/2016/45)
Ticket Prices£6-£38.00
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/mupmxQxmuDC-Cv
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/6/2016/45BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2016 Mini Guide15 July-10 September 2016
RAHE/1/2016/75BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2016 - One Hundred and Twenty Second Season - Prom 264 August 2016
RAHE/1/2016/50BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2016 - One Hundred and Twenty Second Season - Proms Guide15 July-10 September 2016
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work10540BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2016 - One Hundred and Twenty Second Season75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/6619Serkin; Peter (1947-); American pianist
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/1069Knussen; Oliver (1952-2018); British composer, conductor
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