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20 Aug 2015, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2015 Prom 46: Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Prom 46
Prom 46: Danish National Symphony Orchestra
19:30 Thu 20 Aug 2015 Royal Albert Hall
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra celebrates the 150th anniversary of Carl Nielsen, performing some of his best-loved orchestral works, alongside Brahms’s Violin Concerto. Selected pieces broadcast on BBC Four on Sunday 23 August.
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra celebrates the 150th anniversary of Carl Nielsen, performing some of his best-loved orchestral works, alongside Brahms’s Violin Concerto. Selected pieces broadcast on BBC Four on Sunday 23 August.

Programme

      • Overture 'Helios'(13 mins)
      • Violin Concerto in D major(40 mins)
        • interval
        • Three Motets(15 mins)
        • Hymnus amoris(21 mins)
        • Symphony No 2 'The Four Temperaments'(35 mins)

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    Continuing our celebration of Nielsen’s 150th anniversary, his Second Symphony is an exercise in contrasting moods and textures – the ‘Temperaments’ of the subtitle are the Humours of Greco-Roman medicine: Choleric, Phlegmatic, Melancholic and Sanguine. Less familiar are Nielsen’s choral works – the swelling loveliness of Hymnus amoris, inspired by a Titian painting, and the Three Motets that pay homage to Renaissance polyphony. Completing the programme is Brahms’s warmly Romantic Violin Concerto, with Danish-Israeli Nikolaj Znaider.

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