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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Richard Strauss – Tod und Verklärung, Op.24
Richard Strauss – Burleske, TrV 145
~ Interval ~
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Rondo in A major for piano and orchestra, K.386
Hans Nielsen – Symphony no. 5
Performers
Francesco Piemontesi – piano
Thomas Søndergård – Conductor
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
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Programme Note
In the first of his two concerts with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thomas Søndergård directs Nielsen’s Fifth Symphony, shaped by the conflicts and oppositions of the First World War and touching on a bleak nostalgia that is also at the core of Strauss’s tone-poem Tod und Verklärung (‘Death and Transfiguration’) - a musical dramatisation of the roaming thoughts of a dying artist.
Profundity is balanced by virtuosity in the ‘complicated nonsense’ of Strauss’s youthful Burleske and Mozart’s sunny Rondo in A major, both featuring former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Francesco Piemontesi.