| Main Performers | Silja Aalto - vocals
Anssi Karttunen - cello
Seong-Jin Cho - piano |
| Set List | 'Mirage 12, Saariaho
'Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major, Jeunehomme 32, Mozart,
INTERVAL
'An Alpine Symphony 48, R. Strauss |
| Performance Notes | When the 14-year-old Richard Strauss got caught in a storm, lost in the mist, soaked by the rain or blistered by the sun while out mountaineering, his response was to sit at the piano and improvise a musical description of the experience. That sowed the seeds for a work born 35 years later: An Alpine Symphony.
This spectacular symphony, which calls for an orchestra of 130 musicians including wind machine, thunder machine, cowbells, organ and offstage brass will surely raise the roof of the Royal Albert Hall. But only after Mozart at his most charming in the Piano Concerto No. 9 and the late Kaija Saariahos Mirage, a hypnotic snapshot of womanhood for soprano, cello and orchestra.
Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. |
| Related Archival Material | Prom Guide (RAHE/1/2024),
Programme (RAHE/1/2024) |
| Ticket Prices | £10-150, promming tickets £8 |