Nielsen Symphony Cycle I
19:30 Tue 9 Jun 2015 Main Auditorium
John Storgårds launches our Nielsen Symphony Cycle on the composer’s birthday
John Storgårds launches our Nielsen Symphony Cycle on the composer’s birthday
Programme
- Symphony No 1 in G minor
- Songs from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? Verlor'ne Müh, Lied des Verfolgten in Turm, Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen
- interval
- Symphony No. 4, ‘The Inextinguishable’
Performers
- John StorgårdsConductor
- Roderick WilliamsBaritone
Composers
Concert Information
Nielsen’s First Symphony begins with a burst of youthful confidence. Two decades later, in the darkest days of World War 1, he was playing for the highest stakes possible. Nielsen’s tremendous Fourth symphony is a fight for the very future of life itself. As batteries of drums duel it out over a raging orchestra; it’s an electrifying way to launch our cycle – on what would have been Nielsen’s 150th birthday.
Preview, 6.30pm
BBC Radio 3 Presenter Stephen Johnson introduces our Nielsen Symphony Cycle.
