BBC Proms 2019 Prom 60 - Vienna Philharmonic and Bernard Haitink (320kbps .mp3)

Live at BBC Proms: The Vienna Philharmonic with conductor Bernard Haitink and pianist Emanuel Ax in Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto and Bruckner's 7th Symphony

01. Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major
01a. General introduction to BBC Proms 2019 Prom 60
02. Schubert - Impromptu in A flat, op.142 No.2 (encore)
03. Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 in E major (ed. Nowak)

Murray Perahia piano
Vienna Philharmonic
Bernard Haitink conductor

In a year that marks both his 90th birthday and the 65th anniversary of his conducting debut, Bernard Haitink conducts the first of the Vienna Philharmonic’s two concerts this season.

Emanuel Ax is the soloist in Beethoven’s revolutionary Piano Concerto No. 4 – written by the composer as his own farewell to the performing stage.

A farewell of a different kind runs through Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7. Completed shortly after Wagner’s death, the work’s heartfelt slow movement, with its poignant closing elegy, pays homage to the man and mentor Bruckner described as his ‘dearly beloved Master’.

04. BBC Proms 2019 Prom 60 interval
Martin Handley talks to tonight's conductor Bernard Haitink about his life and career.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
Broadcast: 3 September 2019