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Proms 2017 Prom 40: Brahms, Berg, Larcher and Schumann

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Prom 40: Brahms, Berg, Larcher and Schumann
19:00 Tue 15 Aug 2017 Royal Albert Hall
Robin Ticciati and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra perform Schumann’s Third Symphony – the climax of a Prom also including Brahms’s Tragic Overture and Thomas Larcher’s Nocturne – Insomnia. Christian Tetzlaff is the soloist in Berg’s Violin Concerto.
Robin Ticciati and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra perform Schumann’s Third Symphony – the climax of a Prom also including Brahms’s Tragic Overture and Thomas Larcher’s Nocturne – Insomnia. Christian Tetzlaff is the soloist in Berg’s Violin Concerto.

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Brahms’s Tragic Overture is not so much tragic as a ‘serious’ follow-up to his more frivolous Academic Festival Overture.

Dedicated ‘To the memory of an angel’, Berg’s luminous Violin Concerto is an intensely moving personal testament to the death of a young woman, quoting Bach’s funeral chorale ‘Es ist genug’.

Thomas Larcher’s nocturnal wanderings receive their UK premiere before a joyous journey down the Rhine in Schumann’s Third Symphony, which climaxes in a musical homage to Cologne Cathedral.

Image: Christian Tetzlaff © Giorgia Bertazzi

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