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Afternoon Concert: Proms 2010 Repeats: Prom 27

Prom 27

11/08/2010

Proms 2010 Repeats

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Mark Elder conducts the Halle Orchestra in music by Foulds, Beethoven and Strauss.

Katie Derham presents the Halle performing John Foulds's April - England, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 3 (soloist Paul Lewis) and Strauss's Ein Heldenleben.

With Katie Derham

The pianist Paul Lewis pays his third visit to the Royal Albert Hall this season for the next concerto in his Beethoven cycle, this time with the Halle and its Music Director Sir Mark Elder. Beethoven's third concerto is more turbulent than those that precede it, and it shows a more experimental side of Beethoven's musical language.

The concert opens with music by John Foulds who had a varied life as a musician - as a cellist with the Halle Orchestra, as a conductor, a cinema pianist, and a composer of both serious and light music. And it ends with Richard Strauss casting himself as the central heroic figure in his epic tone poem Ein Heldenleben, portraying his own life as a struggle against adversity. Introduced by Penny Gore

Foulds: April - England, Op.48 No.1
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor
R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Paul Lewis, piano
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Sir Mark Elder, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: Proms 2010 Repeats

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