Prom 7: Schumann, Schoenberg & Mozart - 23.07.19

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

19:30 Tuesday 23 July 2019
Royal Albert Hall

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 15 in B flat major, K450
Paul Ben-Haim: Symphony No. 1
Arnold Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces
Robert Schumann: Symphony No 4 in D minor (revised version, 1851)

Yeol Eum Son piano
BBC Philharmonic
Omer Meir Wellber conductor

Omer Meir Wellber makes his Proms debut as the BBC Philharmonic's Chief Conductor. South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son joins them as soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No.15 (K450) with its intricate wind writing and lively hunting-horn finale. Schumann's mould-breaking Fourth Symphony, with its opening journey from darkness to blazing light, is paired with Schoenberg's revolutionary Five Orchestral Pieces and Paul Ben-Haim's 1940 Symphony No.1 - an emotive musical statement at a time of international conflict.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._1_(Ben-Haim)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Televised on BBC4 on Friday, 26th between 7:30 - 10:00pm. Yup, the whole Prom, including the Schönberg!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Televised on BBC4 on Friday, 26th between 7:30 - 10:00pm. Yup, the whole Prom, including the Schönberg!

Good news indeed, even if it is introduced by the patronising bully.

[jayne lee wilson]

Good news indeed, even if it is introduced by the patronising bully.

What? Who? What on Earth have they done?

Is it too much to ask for a reduction in sneering and curmudgeonliness around here...? It's everywhere today (and too often aimed at easy targets...).....very off-putting, perhaps most of all to those who don't often post, those we'd like to hear more from about the music itself....

Remember Michelle Obama..."when they go low, we go high...."

FoR3.org would do well to remember that more often....

[Joseph K]

What? Who? What on Earth have they done?

Is it too much to ask for a reduction in sneering and curmudgeonliness around here...? It's everywhere today (and too often aimed at easy targets...).....very off-putting, perhaps most of all to those who don't often post, those we'd like to hear more from about the music itself....

Remember Michelle Obama..."when they go low, we go high...."

FoR3.org would do well to remember that more often....

[richardfinegold]

My sister had the Ben-Haim as an lp back in the early seventies. I played it a few times, I was just getting into music, and remember that he didn’t compare to well to those other fellows that I raided her collection for, the Bach/Mozart/Mendelssohn....It would be interesting to hear it again. What I remember was essentially late German Romantic with some “Oriental” scales grafted on to evoke his adopted homeland

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Is it too much to ask for a reduction in sneering and curmudgeonliness around here...? It's everywhere today (and too often aimed at easy targets...).....very off-putting, perhaps most of all to those who don't often post, those we'd like to hear more from about the music itself....

Fair comment, Jayne.

[jayne lee wilson]

Fascinating program.... but will the heat be a factor in its execution...?

[teamsaint]

A long programme by modern standards too.


The BBC suits seem determined to put the best programmes on Tuesdays,the useless sods.

[Alison]

A long programme by modern standards too.


The BBC suits seem determined to put the best programmes on Tuesdays,the useless sods.

[Ein Heldenleben]

On a positive note that Mozart was quite beautifully played....

[bluestateprommer]

Sprightly Mozart just now from Yeol Eum Son, although I thought that I heard some near-scrambled moments from her. The happy clappers did their thing after the 1st movement, but fortunately, not after the 2nd.

[jayne lee wilson]

Finely co-ordinated Mozart, stylish, smooth and alert... and very orderly in the first two movements; I could have done with some local enlivening, some spontaneous impulse of phrase, tempi, dynamic.... still the finale was livelier, and I felt it needed to be.

I guess it served its purpose....

[Alison]

Not much depth of feeling in the concerto I felt.

This symphony has engaged me much more.