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Radio 3 Live in Concert: BBC Proms 2011: Prom 49: Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Prom 49: Chamber Orchestra of Europe

30/12/2011

BBC Proms 2011

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Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Bernard Haitink in Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2; Symphony No 4.

A Prom from 2011 in which Bernard Haitink leads the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat (soloist: Emanuel Ax); Symphony No 4 in E minor.

BBC PROMS 2011

Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Louise Fryer

Another chance to hear the second of two concerts recorded in August in which Bernard Haitink conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and pianist Emmanuel Ax in music by Brahms.

They open with a work long central to Emanuel Ax's repertoire. Brahms's Second Piano Concerto is on a grand Romantic scale and makes huge technical demands on the soloist. Following this, they perform the composer's astonishing final symphony, where the balance between expressiveness and structural control is most perfectly maintained.

Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat major
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor

Emanuel Ax (piano)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Bernard Haitink (conductor).

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