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18 Aug 2022, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2022 Prom 42: Sibelius, Beethoven and Nielsen

Prom 42
Prom 42: Sibelius, Beethoven and Nielsen
19:30 Thu 18 Aug 2022 Royal Albert Hall
‘Music is life’: Sibelius and Nielsen take the 20th century head-on while Beethoven looks inward in his Fourth Piano Concerto. Thomas Dausgaard conducts the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with Jan Lisiecki as pianist.
‘Music is life’: Sibelius and Nielsen take the 20th century head-on while Beethoven looks inward in his Fourth Piano Concerto. Thomas Dausgaard conducts the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with Jan Lisiecki as pianist.

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Jan Lisiecki will perform in place of Francesco Piemontesi for this performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard.

‘Music is life – and like it, inextinguishable.’ Two giants of the symphony take the 20th century head-on, with shattering results. Sibelius seems to concentrate all the forces of air, earth and water in a Seventh Symphony that feels like it could have been wrought from the elements themselves. Nielsen confronted the brutality of the First World War in music that absolutely refuses to lie down and die – crowned by a life-or-death duel for two sets of drums. An epic evening from the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra under its Danish-born Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard: Beethoven’s lyrical Fourth Piano Concerto will form the eye of the storm, with Jan Lisiecki as soloist.

Image: Thomas Dausgaard © Thomas Grøndahl