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Prom 60: Vienna Philharmonic and Bernard Haitink

Another chance to hear the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Bernard Haitink, and pianist Emanuel Ax perform Beethoven and Bruckner at the 2019 Â鶹Éç Proms.

Another chance to hear The Vienna Philharmonic with conductor Bernard Haitink and pianist Emanuel Ax in Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto and Bruckner's 7th Symphony

Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London by Martin Handley

Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major

8.05pm
– interval – Martin Handley talks to tonight's conductor Bernard Haitink about his life and career.

Bruckner
Symphony No. 7 in E major (ed. Nowak)

Emanuel Ax piano
Vienna Philharmonic
Bernard Haitink conductor

In a year that marks both his 90th birthday and the 65th anniversary of his conducting debut, Bernard Haitink conducts the first of the Vienna Philharmonic’s two concerts this season.

Emanuel Ax is the soloist in Beethoven’s revolutionary Piano Concerto No. 4 – written by the composer as his own farewell to the performing stage.

A farewell of a different kind runs through Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7. Completed shortly after Wagner’s death, the work’s heartfelt slow movement, with its poignant closing elegy, pays homage to the man and mentor Bruckner described as his ‘dearly beloved Master’.

2 hours, 28 minutes

Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto no 4 in G major

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
  • Franz Schubert

    4 Impromptus D935 - no 2 in A flat major

    Performer: Emanuel Ax.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony no 7 in E major

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
  • Gabriela Montero

    Improvisation on Vivaldi’s Winter

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • EMI.
    • 10.

Broadcast

  • Christmas Eve 2019 19:30

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