Fri 22 Aug 2014

• 17:45

  Proms Plus Literary

  Royal College of Music

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• 19:30

  Prom 48: Classical Tectonics

  Royal Albert Hall

  The Iceland Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut with works by two homegrown composers, both inspired by Iceland’s geology. The slow-growing, primal force of Leifs’s Geysir is balanced by the shifting tectonics of Tómasson’s Magma. Jonathan Biss joins the orchestra for Schumann’s Piano Concerto, and the concert closes with Beethoven’s dramatic Fifth Symphony.

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  The Iceland Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut with works by two homegrown composers, both inspired by Iceland’s geology. The slow-growing, primal force of Leifs’s Geysir is balanced by the shifting tectonics of Tómasson’s Magma. Jonathan Biss joins the orchestra for Schumann’s Piano Concerto, and the concert closes with Beethoven’s dramatic Fifth Symphony.

  Programme

  • • • Haukur Tómasson
      • Magma(16 mins)UK premiere
    • • Robert Schumann
      • Piano Concerto in A minor(31 mins)
      • Kinderszenen, Op 15Der Dichter Spricht (encore)
    • • interval
    • • Jón Leifs
      • Geysir(10 mins)
    • • Ludwig van Beethoven
      • Symphony No. 5 in C minor(33 mins)
    • • Jón Leifs
      • Consolation(encore)
    • • Sigvaldi Kaldalóns
      • Sprengisandur(encore)

  Performers

  • Iceland Symphony Orchestra
  • Ilan Volkov

    conductor
    conductor
  • Jonathan Biss

    piano
    piano

  Composers

  • Haukur Tómasson
  • Robert Schumann
  • Jón Leifs
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Sigvaldi Kaldalóns

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