
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Franz Welser-Most conducts the Cleveland Orchestra. Brahms: Academic Festival Overture. Jorg Widmann: Flute en suite (Joshua Smith: flute).
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly
The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst live at the ѿý Proms with music by Brahms and the UK premiere of a work by Jörg Widmann featuring flautist Joshua Smith .
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Jörg Widmann: Flûte en suite (UK premiere)
8.15pm
Interval
8.35pm
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
Joshua Smith (flute)
Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)
The Cleveland Orchestra is one of America's great ensembles. After an absence of almost a decade it returns to the Proms under Music Director Franz Welser-Möst for the first of two concerts.
If Brahms's stormy and intricately structured First Symphony sees the composer at his most serious and structurally ambitious, his Academic Festival Overture is a rare example of his levity - an elegantly constructed musical thank-you-letter to Breslau University, taking its themes from boisterous student songs.
At the centre of the programme is a concerto commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra for its principal flautist Joshua Smith. Rejecting anything too grandiose, young German composer Jörg Widmann has opted for a suite of dance movements - playful, referential and imaginatively disorienting.
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Music Played
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Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Welser‐Möst. -
Jörg Widmann
Flûte en suite (UK premiere)
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Welser‐Möst.
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- Sun 7 Sep 2014 19:30ѿý Radio 3
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