Name: Prom 25: Storgårds conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fourth
Start: 2024-08-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-08-07T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

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BBC Proms

Conductor

John Storgårds

Orchestra

BBC Philharmonic

Instrumentalist

Stefan Dohr

Horn

Prom 25: Storgårds conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fourth

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Prom 25: Storgårds conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fourth: Genovéva Overture, op. 81 Schumann (+3 More)

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Concert

Oratorio / Orchestral

Genovéva Overture, Op. 81

Pohjola’s daughter

Concerto for Horn and Orchestra

Symphony No. 4

Paul Koneri

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About This Event
Few composers captured life’s struggles as vividly as Tchaikovsky. ‘This is Fate,’ wrote the composer in 1877 as he grappled with the opening notes of his Symphony No. 4. ‘It hangs above your head like the sword of Damocles.’ By the symphony’s final pages, Tchaikovsky had wrested hope from despair. John Storgårds conducts his BBC Philharmonic in this full-blooded symphony, after the delicate, white luminosity of Hans Abrahamsen’s Horn Concerto and the brusque drama of Sibelius’s symphonic fantasia Pohjola’s Daughter, based on a tale from Finnish folk epic the Kalevala, in which the ancient bard Väinämöinen attempts to woo the beautiful Daughter of the North. The Prom opens with Schumann’s much-overlooked dramatic overture for his opera on the medieval legend of St Genevieve of Brabant, Genoveva.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

English

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