Name: Prom 51: Strauss, Wagner & Per Nørgård
Start: 2018-08-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-08-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Organization

BBC Proms

Conductor

Thomas Dausgaard

Singer

Malin Byström

Soprano

Sopran

Orchestra

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Prom 51: Strauss, Wagner & Per Nørgård

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Prom 51: Strauss, Wagner & Per Nørgård: Parsifal Wagner,Richard (+2 More)

Public

Parsifal

Four Last Songs

Symphony No. 3

Approved

Premiered in 1976, Per Nørgård’s Third Symphony is one of the great contemporary symphonies – a Danish classic that has never before been performed in the UK. Suffused with glowing microtones and thick, textural beauty, the eclectic score draws on everything from plainchant to Latin-American rhythms to spin its extraordinary narrative.

Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra preface it with two works of equal sonic breadth: Wagner’s exquisite musical meditation, the Prelude to Act 1 of Parsifal, and the autumnal warmth of Strauss’s Four Last Songs, sung by Swedish soprano Malin Byström.

Strauss’s luminous Four Last Songs and Wagner’s shimmering Prelude to Act I of Parsifal set the tone for a concert rich in melody and orchestral beauty, which climaxes in Danish composer Per Norgard’s extraordinary, eclectic Third Symphony.

English

Prom 51: Strauss, Wagner & Per Nørgård by Wagner, Richard, Strauss, Nørgård, Mon 20 Aug 2018, From (2018/2018), Conductor Thomas Dausgaard, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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