BBC Proms 2024 - Prom 27 - Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony (320kbps .mp3)

Live at the Proms the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in Strauss' Alpine Symphony, Saariaho's Mirage, and Mozart's Jeunehomme Concerto with soloist Seong-Jin Cho.

01. Saariaho, Kaija - Mirage (12 mins)
01a. Introduction to Saariaho’s Mirage
02. Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major ‘Jeunehomme’ K271
02a. Introduction to Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9
03. Ravel – Minuet from Sonatine [encore]
03a. BBC Proms 2024 - Prom 27 - interval
INTERVAL: To discuss Alpine tourism, Andrew McGregor is joined by Dr Seán Williams, a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker who has made programmes for BBC Radio 3 about a murder in Trieste in the 1760s, the idea of luxury, the rise and fall of the hairdresser. Seán is a Senior Lecturer in German and European Cultural History in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sheffield.
04. Strauss - An Alpine Symphony

Silja Aalto (soprano)
Anssi Karttunen (cello)
Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

When the 14-year-old Richard Strauss got caught in a storm, lost in the mist, soaked by the rain or blistered by the sun while out mountaineering, his response was to sit at the piano and improvise a musical description of the experience. That sowed the seeds for a work born 35 years later: An Alpine Symphony. This spectacular symphony, which calls for an orchestra of 130 musicians – including wind machine, thunder machine, cowbells, organ and offstage brass – will surely raise the roof of the Royal Albert Hall. But only after Mozart – at his most charming in the Piano Concerto No. 9 – and the late Kaija Saariaho’s Mirage, a hypnotic snapshot of womanhood for soprano, cello and orchestra.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, presented by Andrew McGregor.

First broadcast:  9 August 2024
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