Proms 2012 Prom 27: Wagner & Bruckner - BBC Proms

3 Aug 2012, Royal Albert Hall

19:45 Fri 3 Aug 2012 Next Event

Prom 27: Wagner & Bruckner

19:45 Fri 3 Aug 2012 Royal Albert Hall

Feted interpreter of the late Romantic repertoire, Donald Runnicles conducts Wagner and Bruckner, with his BBC Scottish Symphony.Feted interpreter of the late Romantic repertoire, Donald Runnicles conducts Wagner and Bruckner, with his BBC Scottish Symphony.

Programme

- - Richard Wagner
  - Siegfried Idyll(18 mins)
- - interval
- - Anton Bruckner
  - Symphony No. 8 in C minor (1890 version, ed. Nowak)(80 mins)ed. Nowak, 1955

Performers

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles
conductor
conductor

Composers

About this event

In their first appearance this season, Donald Runnicles and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra present two works by composers for whom he has a particular affinity. Wagner’s gift to his wife, Cosima, is presented in its pared down original orchestration, much as she would have heard it that Christmas morning in 1870.

The Royal Albert Hall is an ideal venue for Bruckner’s symphonic revelations. The Eighth Symphony, arguably the greatest of them all, remains a huge and glorious challenge.

Discover the Music Download a short audio guide published on the day about a key work in tonight’s Prom: Stephen Johnson talks about Wagner's Siegfried Idyll.