Proms 2013 Prom 9: Stenhammar, Szymanowski & R. Strauss - BBC Proms

18 Jul 2013, Royal Albert Hall

19:00 Thu 18 Jul 2013 Next Event

Prom 9: Stenhammar, Szymanowski & R. Strauss

19:00 Thu 18 Jul 2013 Royal Albert Hall

Nordic forests, Alpine sunlight and a Moorish nocturne. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Thomas Søndergård play Wilhelm Stenhammar’s Excelsior!, Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony and Szymanowski’s opulent symphony subtitled ‘The Song of the Night’.

Programme

- - Wilhelm Stenhammar
  - Excelsior!(13 mins)
- - Karol Szymanowski
  - Symphony No 3, 'The Song of the Night'(25 mins)
- - interval
- - Richard Strauss
  - An Alpine Symphony(50 mins)

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About this event

Evocations of Nordic forests, Persian gardens and snow-capped mountains feature in Thomas Søndergård’s first Prom as Principal Conductor of tonight’s orchestra.

Wilhelm Stenhammar’s 1896 symphonic overture Excelsior! leads into the opulent sound-world of Karol Syzmanowski’s Symphony No. 3, ‘The Song of the Night’. A journey from dusk to dawn and on into the night, Richard Strauss’s Alpine Symphony is a much a statement of the composer’s personal philosophy as a description of the natural world at its most dramatic.