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Proms 2014 Prom 19: R. Strauss & Elgar

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Royal Albert Hall

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Festliches Präludium, Op.61

Deutsche Motette, Op.62

Four Last Songs

Arshiya Banu

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Two rarely heard masterpieces continue our 150th-anniversary celebrations of Richard Strauss: the mighty Festival Prelude and the Deutsche Motette (practically a concerto for choir). We move to more familiar musical territory with Strauss’s Four Last Songs, whose late-Romantic nostalgia is shared by Elgar’s Second Symphony.

Two rarely heard works continue our 150th-anniversary celebration of Richard Strauss. Scored for organ and an orchestra calling for no fewer than 10 trumpets (six offstage), the Festival Prelude packs symphonic weight into its brief duration.

It is matched for impact by the Deutsche Motette – a concerto for choir by any other name: its vocal lines trace the same expansive arcs and arabesques as the composer’s exquisite, autumnal Four Last Songs. Maintaining the mood of late-Romantic nostalgia, Elgar’s Second Symphony delights in flexible chromaticism, its shifting moods coloured in delicate shades.

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Proms 2014 Prom 19: R. Strauss & Elgar by Strauss, From (2014/2014), Conductor Vasily Petrenko, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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