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BBC Proms: 2016: Prom 26: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Oliver Knussen

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04/08/2016

Prom 26: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Oliver Knussen

2016

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BBC Symphony Orchestra under Oliver Knussen in music by Brahms and Reinbert de Leeuw.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, BBC Symphony Orchestra under Oliver Knussen. Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2 (with Peter Serkin). Reinbert de Leeuw: Der nachtliche Wanderer.

Live at BBC Proms: Oliver Knussen conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra - Reinbert de Leeuw's symphonic poem The Night Wanderer and Brahms's Second Piano Concerto with Peter Serkin.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London 
Presented by Penny Gore. 

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, Op.83

20.20: INTERVAL: Proms Extra
Simon Callow Reads From the German Romantics
A literary accompaniment to tonight's prom. Actor and writer Simon Callow reads from some of the German Romantic authors, playwrights and poets who inspired Johannes Brahms. Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill.

20.40: Reinbert De Leeuw: Der nächtliche Wanderer ('The Night Wanderer') (UK premiere)

Peter Serkin, piano 
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
Oliver Knussen, conductor 

When Brahms came to write his Second Piano Concerto more than two decades after his First, out went the confident swagger of a man in his prime and in came a feeling of intimacy and expectation. 

Oliver Knussen balances the Brahms with the far-flung world of Der nächtliche Wanderer ('The Night Wanderer') by Dutch composer and conductor Reinbert de Leeuw. Inspired by Friedrich Hölderlin's short poem of the same name, this deftly-coloured symphonic poem has been described as 'a bath of beauty' and 'a high-density monument in music'.

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