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The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-M枚st at this year's 麻豆社 Proms with music by Brahms and the UK premiere of a work by J枚rg Widmann featuring flautist Joshua Smith.

Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
J枚rg Widmann: Fl没te en suite (UK premiere)
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68

Joshua Smith (flute)
Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-M枚st (conductor)

The Cleveland Orchestra is one of America's great ensembles. After an absence of almost a decade it returns to the Proms under its Music Director Franz Welser-M枚st.

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 J枚rg Widmann has opted for a suite of dance movements - playful, referential and imaginatively disorientating.

Concert originally broadcast 07/09/2014.