Name: Prom 27: Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony
Start: 2024-08-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-08-09T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Admin

BBC Proms

Conductor

Sakari Oramo

Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Seong-Jin Cho

Piano

Singer

Soprano

Silja Aalto

Anssi Karttunen

Cello

Prom 27: Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Prom 27: Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony: Mirage Saariaho (+2 More)

Public

Concert

Oratorio / Orchestral

Mirage

Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major, K. 271

An Alpine Symphony, op. 64

Paul Koneri

Approved

About This Event
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 Saariaho’s Mirage, a hypnotic snapshot of womanhood for soprano, cello and orchestra.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Instrumentation

Ensemble

Co-Producer