19:30 Sunday 28 Aug 2016
Royal Albert Hall
Thomas Larcher: Symphony No 2 (UK premiere)
Richard Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder
Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
Elisabeth Kulman mezzo-soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov conductor
An Alpine Symphony combines the tunefulness, richness of orchestration and sheer unadulterated beauty of Richard Strauss's character-based tonepoems 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 Wagner's unalloyed love songs for Mathilde Wesendonck, sung by distinguished Austrian mezzo Elisabeth Kulman, and the UK premiere of Symphony No. 2 "Cenotaph" by another Austrian - composer Thomas Larcher.
Royal Albert Hall
Thomas Larcher: Symphony No 2 (UK premiere)
Richard Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder
Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
Elisabeth Kulman mezzo-soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov conductor
An Alpine Symphony combines the tunefulness, richness of orchestration and sheer unadulterated beauty of Richard Strauss's character-based tonepoems 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 Wagner's unalloyed love songs for Mathilde Wesendonck, sung by distinguished Austrian mezzo Elisabeth Kulman, and the UK premiere of Symphony No. 2 "Cenotaph" by another Austrian - composer Thomas Larcher.
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