Thu 18 Jul 2013

• 17:00

  Proms Plus Family

  Royal College of Music

  Join Rachel Leach on an epic climb up an Alpine mountain, from twilight to nightfall with every tiny detail described along the way.

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  Proms Plus For Families

  
• 19:00

  Prom 9: Stenhammar, Szymanowski & R. Strauss

  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’.

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  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)

  Performers

  • Michael Weinius

    tenor
    tenor
  • BBC National Chorus of Wales
  • BBC Symphony Chorus
  • BBC National Orchestra of Wales
  • Thomas Søndergård

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Wilhelm Stenhammar
  • Karol Szymanowski
  • Richard Strauss

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  Choral music and opera

  
• 21:20

  Proms Plus Late

  Royal Albert Hall

  Also part of

  For poets Late Night Proms Proms Plus