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20 Aug 2015, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2015 Prom 46: Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Prom 46
Prom 46: Danish National Symphony Orchestra
19:30 Thu 20 Aug 2015 Royal Albert Hall
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra celebrates the 150th anniversary of Carl Nielsen, performing some of his best-loved orchestral works, alongside Brahms’s Violin Concerto. Selected pieces broadcast on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Four on Sunday 23 August.
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra celebrates the 150th anniversary of Carl Nielsen, performing some of his best-loved orchestral works, alongside Brahms’s Violin Concerto. Selected pieces broadcast on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Four on Sunday 23 August.

Programme

      • Overture 'Helios'(13 mins)
      • Violin Concerto in D major(40 mins)
        • interval
        • Three Motets(15 mins)
        • Hymnus amoris(21 mins)
        • Symphony No 2 'The Four Temperaments'(35 mins)

    About this event

    Continuing our celebration of Nielsen’s 150th anniversary, his Second Symphony is an exercise in contrasting moods and textures – the ‘Temperaments’ of the subtitle are the Humours of Greco-Roman medicine: Choleric, Phlegmatic, Melancholic and Sanguine. Less familiar are Nielsen’s choral works – the swelling loveliness of Hymnus amoris, inspired by a Titian painting, and the Three Motets that pay homage to Renaissance polyphony. Completing the programme is Brahms’s warmly Romantic Violin Concerto, with Danish-Israeli Nikolaj Znaider.