Proms 2016 Prom 70: Staatskapelle Berlin And Daniel Barenboim – Mozart And Bruckner by Mozart, Bruckner, Ó (2016/2016), Seoltóir Daniel Barenboim, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22, directed from the piano by Daniel Barenboim, is paired with Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony in the Berlin Staatskapelle’s second Prom Bruckner, but not as we know him. In the Sixth Symphony, gone is the composer’s typical heft, his long-drawn crescendos and his archetypal brooding introduction. Instead, this symphony gallops into life, crackling with vitality. Bruckner’s rich and individual Sixth Symphony is heard in the second of the Staatskapelle Berlin’s two Proms after a piano concerto by Mozart that boasts similar rarity and individuality.