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Prom 47: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

Live at the 成人快手 Proms. The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Andris Nelsons and Michael Sch枚nheit perform organ music by Bach and Bruckner's Symphony No 8 in C minor.

Live at 成人快手 Proms: the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig with Andris Nelsons and Michael Sch枚nheit in works by JS Bach and Bruckner.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly

JS Bach:
Fantasia in G minor, BWV 542
Cantata No. 147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben', BWV 147 鈥� Chorale 'Jesus bleibet meine Freude' (transcr. Schmidt-Mannheim)
Prelude in E flat major, BWV 552
Chorale Prelude 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme', BWV 645
Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552

c. 8.15pm:
Interval: Proms Plus Talk: Petroc Trelawny talks to Stephen Johnson and Professor Julian Horton about the relationship between music and architecture.

Bruckner: Symphony No 8 in C minor (1890 version, ed. Nowak)

Michael Sch枚nheit (organ)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Andris Nelsons (conductor)

The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra returns to the Proms for the first time under new Music Director Andris Nelsons.
At the heart of their programme is Bruckner鈥檚 Symphony No. 8 鈥� a work as vast in scope as size, a mighty orchestral monologue whose monumental finale the composer considered 鈥榯he most significant movement of my life鈥�.
Before the broad unfolding of Bruckner, Michael Schonheit presents the meticulous detail of Bach in a series of solo organ works including the lovely chorale 鈥榃achet auf鈥�.

2 hours, 44 minutes

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fantasia in G minor, BWV 542

    Performer: Michael Sch枚nheit. Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata No. 147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben', BWV 147 - Chorale 'Jesus bleibet meine Freude'

    Performer: Michael Sch枚nheit. Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude in E flat major, BWV 552

    Performer: Michael Sch枚nheit. Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chorale Prelude 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme', BWV 64

    Performer: Michael Sch枚nheit. Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude in E flat major, BWV 552

    Performer: Michael Sch枚nheit. Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No 8 in C minor (1890 version, ed. Nowak)

    Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Prelude in A flat major, Op 28 No 17

    Performer: Seong-Jin Cho.
    • Chopin Competition Winner 2015: Seong-Jin Cho.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 17.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

Broadcast

  • Fri 23 Aug 2019 19:30

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