BBC Symphony Orchestra - Rihm and Bruckner

The BBC Symphony Orchestra with conductor Lothar Koenigs at the Barbican. Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, and pianist Nicolas Hodges is soloist in Wolfgang Rihm's Piano Concerto No.2.

Recorded at the Barbican on 22nd February
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Wolfgang Rihm: Piano Concerto No.2 (UK premiere)

19.55
Interval

20.15
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E

Nicolas Hodges (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Lothar Koenigs (conductor)

The heartrending slow movement of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony became a tribute to the composer's idol, Wagner. Learning of Wagner's death as he was completing the movement, Bruckner dedicated it 'to the memory of the late, deeply beloved and immortal Master'. Wolfgang Rihm's Piano Concerto No 2 (2014), already performed in Salzburg and Washington, creates not only witty interplay between soloist and orchestra, but beautifully detailed scoring of often ravishing delicacy.