| Main Performers | Elisabeth Kulman - vocals |
| Set List | 'Symphony No.2', Thomas Larcher,
'Wesendonck-Lieder', Wagner
INTERVAL
'An Alpine Symphony', Strauss |
| Performance Notes | An Alpine Symphony combines the tunefulness, richness of orchestration and sheer unadulterated beauty of Richard Strausss character-based tone-poems with what is probably his most impressive piece of musical architecture. Whether depicting a bracing mountain climb or the slow formation of the mountain range itself, the work has a magnificence all of its own, particularly when resounding through the Royal Albert Hall. The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Semyon Bychkov scales its heights here, after Wagners unalloyed love songs for Mathilde Wesendonck and the first UK performance of Thomas Larchers Symphony No.2.
UK premiere of 'Symphony No.2', Thomas Larcher. |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2016/50),
Programme (RAHE/1/2016/106),
Mini-Guide (RAHE/6/2016/45) |