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Prom 21: An Alpine Symphony

Live at the 麻豆社 Proms: the 麻豆社 SSO and Ilan Volkov are joined by the Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet to perform GF Haas's Concerto Grosso No 1 and Strauss's An Alpine Symphony.

Live at 麻豆社 Proms: 麻豆社 SSO & Ilan Volkov are joined by the Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet to perform G.F. Haas' Concerto Grosso No 1, alongside Strauss' Alpine Symphony.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Kate Molleson

Mozart: Serenade No 8 (Notturno) for Four Orchestras
G.F. Haas: Concerto Grosso No 1

1925 Interval: Proms Plus Abbie Garrington and Dan Richards discuss the appeal of the mountains and how wild landscapes have inspired creativity. Presented by New Generation Thinker Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough.

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Strauss: Alpine Symphony

Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet
Ilan Volkov (conductor)
麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra

A concert of sonic scope and spectacle from the 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov climaxes in Strauss's dramatic An Alpine Symphony, which paints a vivid picture of a day's hiking in the Bavarian mountains.

The Alps also make their way into Georg Friedrich Haas's Concerto Grosso in the form of four alphorns - enormous wooden horns, whose other-worldly overtones also inspired Rossini and Berlioz.

The concert opens with Mozart's Notturno, an unfinished Salzburg carnival serenade, whose four separate instrumental groups will be dispersed around the Royal Albert Hall for maximum acoustic drama.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music and featured items

  • Part 1

    Duration: 01:02:57

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Notturno in D major, K286

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
  • Georg Friedrich Haas

    Concerto grosso No. 1

    Ensemble: Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
  • Balthasar Streiff

    Lioba

    Ensemble: Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet.
  • Interval

    Proms Plus Abbie Garrington and Dan Richards discuss the appeal of the mountains

    Duration: 20:21

  • Part 2

    Duration: 54:26

  • Richard Strauss

    An Alpine Symphony

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
  • Post-concert

    Duration: 15:15

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    A Vision of Aeroplanes

    Performer: James McVinnie. Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Singer: Raphaela Papadakis. Conductor: Timothy Brown.
    • Vaughan Williams: Sacred Choral Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 12.

Credit

Role Contributor
Performer 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Broadcast

  • Mon 30 Jul 2018 19:30

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