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Prom 39: R. Strauss, Rameau, Mozart and Bernard Rands
Part of the Proms 2015
Add to my Calendar 15-08-2014 19:30 15-08-2014 21:30 36 Prom 39: R. Strauss, Rameau, Mozart and Bernard Rands Rameau’s opera Les Indes galantes and Strauss’s tone-poem Ein Heldenleben were both flops at their premieres, yet they soon won over a public suspicious of the new. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra tackles both works, taking us from 18th-century France to fin-de-siècle Germany - with a quick stop-off in Chelsea, where the 8-year-old Mozart composed his First Symphony. Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Jonathan Biss gives the UK premiere of Bernard Rands’s colourful new Piano Concerto, written for Biss himself. Royal Albert Hall, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les Indes galantes
Bernard Rands – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
~ Interval ~
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony no.1 in E flat major, K.16
Richard Strauss – Ein Heldenleben, Op.40
Performers
Jonathan Biss – piano
Markus Stenz – Conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
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Programme Note
Rameau’s opera Les Indes galantes and Strauss’s tone-poem Ein Heldenleben were both flops at their premieres, yet they soon won over a public suspicious of the new. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra tackles both works, taking us from 18th-century France to fin-de-siècle Germany - with a quick stop-off in Chelsea, where the 8-year-old Mozart composed his First Symphony. Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Jonathan Biss gives the UK premiere of Bernard Rands’s colourful new Piano Concerto, written for Biss himself.