Prom 27: Robin Holloway, Strauss & Brahms

4 Aug 2011, Royal Albert Hall

19:00 Thu 4 Aug 2011 Next Event

Proms 2011 Prom 27: Robin Holloway, Strauss & Brahms

19:00 Thu 4 Aug 2011 Royal Albert Hall

Donald Runnicles and 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra open their second Prom this season with a major world premiere from Robin Holloway, plus Strauss鈥檚 Four Last Songs and after the interval, Brahms鈥檚 Second Symphony.

Programme

- - Robin Holloway
  - Fifth Concerto for Orchestra(25 mins)麻豆社 commission: world premiere
- - Richard Strauss
  - Four Last Songs(22 mins)
- - interval
- - Johannes Brahms
  - Symphony No. 2 in D major(40 mins)

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About this event

Donald Runnicles and his orchestra open their second Prom this season with a major world premiere, the latest in Robin Holloway's unique series of allusive and extravagantly inventive showpieces for orchestra.

In his willingness to make a big Romantic splash, Holloway is sometimes likened to Richard Strauss, although that composer is at his most reflective in the Four Last Songs. Brahms's Second Symphony has its melancholic, contemplative aspect but ends on a note of unalloyed triumph.