Prom 33: Sibelius, Grieg & Nielsen

8 Aug 2011, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Mon 8 Aug 2011 Next Event

Proms 2011 Prom 33: Sibelius, Grieg & Nielsen

19:30 Mon 8 Aug 2011 Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra return to the Proms to play two contrasting symphonies by Sibelius and Nielsen, while聽critically acclaimed young pianist, Alice Sara Ott, makes her Proms debut in one of the most popular of all piano concertos - Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor.

Programme

- - Jean Sibelius
  - Symphony No 6 in D minor(28 mins)
- - Edvard Grieg
  - Piano Concerto in A minor(30 mins)
- - Franz Liszt
  - 脡tudes d'ex茅cution transcendante d'apr猫s Paganini, S. 140 - No. 3 'La Campanella'(5 mins)(encore)
- - interval
- - Carl Nielsen
  - Symphony No. 4, 鈥楾he Inextinguishable鈥�(35 mins)
- - Hugo Alfv茅n
  - Mountain King Suite - IV. Herdsmaids Dance(4 mins)

Performers

Composers

About this event

Absent from the Proms since 2004, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is back with a new Chief Conductor, no stranger to these shores (as a former Music Director of the CBSO), and a suitably Nordic programme.

Sibelius claimed to be offering the public 'pure cold water' with music like his magical Sixth Symphony - other composers were, he said, 'engaged in the manufacture of cocktails'.

Nielsen's Fourth is a more extrovert piece, a celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit from the dark days of the First World War, complete with battling sets of timpani and earth-shattering climaxes.

Between the two symphonies, critically acclaimed young German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott makes her Proms debut in one of the most popular of all piano concertos.

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