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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Haukur Tómasson – Magma
Robert Schumann – Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54
~ Interval ~
Leifs – Geysir
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no.5 in C minor, Op.67
Performers
Jonathan Biss – piano
Ilan Volkov – Conductor
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Other concerts in this Series
Programme Note
Ilan Volkov directs the Iceland Symphony Orchestra (of which he is Music Director) in the ensemble’s Proms debut. Together they bring works from two major Icelandic composers, both inspired by the power and drama of their native country’s geology. There’s a slow-growing, primal force to Leifs’s Geysir that balances the shifting tectonics of Tómasson’s Magma.
Jonathan Biss makes his second appearance this season with Schumann’s Piano Concerto, written for the composer’s wife Clara, and the concert closes with Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, whose darkness-to-light scenario culminates in a blaze of glory.