Please note the change of conductor and soloist.
Programme
- Symphony No. 1 in E minor(38 mins)Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere, 1903
- interval
- Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor(26 mins)Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere, 1936
- Der Rosenkavalier – suite(24 mins)
Performers
- Gil Shahamviolin
- Yannick Nézet‐Séguinconductor
About This Event
The second concert from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra pays tribute to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood.
A passionate champion of new music, Wood gave the UK premieres of many major works featured this season, including both Sibelius’s turbulent Symphony No. 1 and Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto – played here by Gil Shaham – whose initial simplicity and directness give way to spiky virtuosity in the finale.
The concert closes in Vienna, with the waltz-filled and lushly orchestrated suite from Richard Strauss’s popular opera Der Rosenkavalier.
Approx. end time: 21:45
Please note the change of conductor and soloist.
Broadcast on ˿ Four on Friday 30 August
Image: Yannick Nézet Séguin © Hans van der Woerd