11/05/2018

The BBC Philharmonic is conducted by their Principal Guest Conductor Ben Gernon in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. Stefan Dohr joins the orchestra for Mozart's Third Horn Concerto.

Live from the Victoria Hall, Hanley
Presented by Tom Redmond

Wagner: Rienzi, Overture
Mozart: Horn Concerto No 3 in E flat, K447

Music Interval

8.20
Weber orch. Berlioz: Invitation to the Dance
Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A

Stefan Dohr (horn)
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon (conductor)

Dance drives to the very end of our programme; Berlioz's elegant, cut-glass orchestration of Weber's Invitation to the Dance ushers in Beethoven's "apotheosis of the dance". That description of Beethoven's uplifting Seventh Symphony was coined by Wagner whose overture to his early opera Rienzi opens the programme. The orchestra is joined by virtuoso horn player Stefan Dohr for Mozart's sparkling Third Horn Concerto.