Programme
- Os justi(5 mins)
- Locus iste(4 mins)
- Christus factus est(6 mins)
- Symphony No. 5 in B flat major(81 mins)
Performers
- Owain Parkconductor
- Kirill Petrenkoconductor
Composers
About This Event
Poor, homesick and misunderstood, Anton Bruckner plunged into despair during the winter of 1875. From the depths of his anguish came astonishing proof of his triumph of will: the composer’s spirited Symphony No. 5. For their second night at the Â鶹Éç Proms, Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker fill the Royal Albert Hall with a work designed on no less grand a scale. Here the sternness and warmth of the composer’s four movements make for a majestic whole, concluding with one of the most overwhelming denouements in all of music. Before it, the Â鶹Éç Singers, celebrating its centenary this year, offers the most sublime of palate-cleansers: three of Bruckner’s most radiant motets, inspiring testaments to the faith that kept his creative flame alive.
There will be no interval
Broadcast live on Â鶹Éç Radio 3
Image: Kirill Petrenko © Stephan Rabold