BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Weber, Beethoven and Brahms

Jac van Steen conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in an overture by Weber and Brahms's Fourth Symphony. Llyr Williams is the soloist in Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto.

Live from Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas

Weber: Overture - Oberon
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major

8.20 Interval Music

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor

Llyr Williams (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor)

Now firmly established as a leading international pianist, Llyr Williams performs Beethoven, a composer for whom he has established a particular affinity. The Fourth Piano Concerto is remarkable for its combination of outer tenderness and underlying intensity, continually shifting in mood from melancholy to heroic, anguished to whimsical. Beethoven's influence is all too evident in Brahms's last and greatest symphony, a work of tremendous power and passion, not to mention immense beauty.