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Afternoon Concert: Proms 2011 Repeats: Prom 51 - Wagner, Liszt, Volans, Brahms

Prom 51 - Wagner, Liszt, Volans, Brahms

25/08/2011

Proms 2011 Repeats

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Proms 2011 Repeats, Prom 51 - Wagner, Liszt, Volans, Brahms

A Prom in which Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC SO in Wagner, Liszt, Volans and Brahms.

A Prom in which Thomas Dausgaard leads the BBC SO. Wagner: Overture (Die Meistersinger). Liszt: La Notte. Volans: Piano Concerto No 3 (with Barry Douglas). Brahms: Symphony No 1.

With Jonathan Swain

Proms Repeat: 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.

Presented by Penny Gore

Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg - Overture
Liszt: La Notte
Kevin Volans: Piano Concerto No. 3 (BBC Commission; World premiere)
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor

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

Afternoon Concert: Proms 2011 Repeats

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