Proms 2025
19 Jul 2011, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2011 Prom 6: Weber, Brahms & Stravinsky

Prom 6: Weber, Brahms & Stravinsky
19:00 Tue 19 Jul 2011 Royal Albert Hall
Renaud and Gautier Capu莽on play Brahms鈥檚 meltingly beautiful Double Concerto and Myung-Whun Chung leads the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for Weber鈥檚 Oberon overture and Stravinsky鈥檚 famous The Rite of Spring.
Renaud and Gautier Capu莽on play Brahms鈥檚 meltingly beautiful Double Concerto and Myung-Whun Chung leads the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for Weber鈥檚 Oberon overture and Stravinsky鈥檚 famous The Rite of Spring.

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In the first half of his second Prom Myung-Whun Chung pairs works by German Romantics from opposite ends of the 19th century, including the meltingly beautiful Brahms Double Concerto with Renaud and Gautier Capu莽on.

After the interval comes a piece with French connections which swept away that old order. A sensational succ猫s de scandale in 1913 for Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes, The Rite of Spring not only prompted the most famous riot in musical history but sounds sensational still, rediscovering rhythm as music's primal driving force.