Name: Gražinytė-Tyla Conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Start: 2021-08-05T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-08-05T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Organization

Conductor

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

CBSO

Orchestra

Gražinytė-Tyla Conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

London

United Kingdom

BBC Proms

Royal Albert Hall

Gražinytė-Tyla Conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra: Symphony No. 2 in B major, Op. 30 Gipps (+2 More)

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Symphony No. 2 in B major, Op. 30

The Exterminating Angel Symphony

Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90

Approved

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla champion the music of a too-long neglected composer. A pupil of Vaughan Williams, Ruth Gipps started her career as an oboist with what was then the City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1944, before becoming established as a composer. Her Symphony No. 2 takes a wide-screen, cinematic view of the Second World War, embracing exhilaration, anxiety and, finally, ecstatic rejoicing. Conflict of a very different kind runs through The Exterminating Angel Symphony by Thomas Adès (50 this year), inspired by Louis Buñuel’s Surrealist film.

Brahms’s Third Symphony strikes a more autumnal tone, inspired by a visit to the River Rhine in 1883. The critic Eduard Hanslick pronounced it ‘artistically the most nearly perfect’ of the composer’s symphonies to date.

English

Gražinytė-Tyla Conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra by Gipps, Adès, Brahms, From (2021/2021), Conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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