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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Johannes Brahms – Academic Festival Overture, Op.80
Johannes Brahms – Alto Rhapsody, Op.53
Johannes Brahms – Triumphlied, Op.55
~ Interval ~
Johannes Brahms – Symphony no.1 in C minor, Op.68
Performers
Marin Alsop – Conductor
Jamie Barton – mezzo-soprano
Benjamin Appl – baritone
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Choir of the Enlightenment
Other concerts in this Series
Programme Note
Proms favourite Marin Alsop returns prior to her second Last Night appearance for an all-Brahms evening. The Academic Festival Overture is an ebullient work the composer himself described as ‘a very boisterous potpourri of student songs’, and there’s also a rare opportunity to hear the epic Triumphlied - celebrating German victories in the Franco-Prussian War in choral settings of striking power and vividness. American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, winner of the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, is the soloist in Brahms’s glorious Alto Rhapsody, and completing the concert is Brahms’s First Symphony - a work nicknamed ‘Beethoven’s 10th’ for its obvious debt to the elder composer.