| Set List | 'Academic Festival Overture', Brahms,
'Flûte en Suite', J Widmann
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.1 in C Minor', Brahms,
ENCORE
'Czardas' from Ritter Pasman, J Strauss |
| Performance Notes | The Cleveland Orchestra is one of America's great ensembles. After an absence of almost a decade it returns to the Proms under Music Director Franz Welser-Möst for the first of two concerts.
If Brahms's stormy and intricately structured First Symphony sees the composer at his most serious and structurally ambitious, his Academic Festival Overture is a rare example of his levity an elegantly constructed musical thank-you-letter to Breslau University, taking its themes from boisterous student songs. At the centre of the programme is a concerto commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra for its principal flautist Joshua Smith.
Rejecting anything too grandiose, young German composer Jörg Widmann has opted for a suite of dance movements playful, referential and imaginatively disorienting.
UK premiere of 'Flûte en suite', Jörg Widmann.
The concert was broadcast on BBC Four that evening.
The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3. |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53),
Programme (RAHE/1/2014/118),
Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41),
Proms Mini-Guide |