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BBC Proms: 2011: Prom 51

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Brahms

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Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Brahms's great First Symphony.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London, Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Brahms's great First Symphony.

BBC PROMS 2011

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Penny Gore

Wagner, Liszt and Brahms's First Symphony from Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, plus the world premiere of Kevin Volans's Piano Concerto for soloist Barry Douglas.

After the familiar strains of Wagner's rousing overture there's a real rarity: Liszt's La notte is an extended version of a piano piece from the Années de pèlerinage to which the composer added a middle section recalling his Hungarian roots. A late work that he wanted played at his own funeral, it is new to the Proms. So too is Kevin Volans's concerto, hot off the press and written for tonight's soloist. Expect the unexpected from a creative figure born in South Africa but now resident in Ireland whose output resists compartmentalisation.
The long shadow of Ludwig van Beethoven inhibited Brahms's early attempts at symphonic writing but he surpassed all expectations with the magnificence of his First Symphony.

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor

Barry Douglas (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 25th August at 2.30pm.

BBC Proms: 2011

Prom 51

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

All broadcasts from the 117th season of the BBC Proms.

BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jiri Belohlavek in Wagner, Liszt, Kevin Volans and Brahms

Jiri Belohlavek conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in works by Wagner, Liszt, Kevin Volans and Brahms

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