Prom 44: Berlioz 鈥� Symphonie fantastique

19 Aug 2014, Royal Albert Hall

18:30 Tue 19 Aug 2014 Next Event

Proms 2014 Prom 44: Berlioz 鈥� Symphonie fantastique

18:30 Tue 19 Aug 2014 Royal Albert Hall

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut under its Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis. Passion and despair, love and death, all feature in a programme that roams from the dark fantasy of Berlioz鈥檚 Symphonie fantastique to the soaring ecstasy of Strauss鈥檚 Don Juan, while Elgar鈥檚 Cello Concerto adds more delicate shades of melancholy and yearning.

Programme

- - Richard Strauss
  - Don Juan(17 mins)
- - Edward Elgar
  - Cello Concerto in E minor(30 mins)
- - Benjamin Britten
  - Cello Suite No. 2(3 mins)Declamato (encore)
- - interval
- - Hector Berlioz
  - Symphonie fantastique(54 mins)
- - Percy Grainger
  - Handel in the Strand (arr. Henry Wood)(3 mins)(encore)

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About this event

This season鈥檚 showcase of global orchestras continues with the Proms debut of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, under its new Chief Conductor, Sir Andrew Davis. Together they explore the musical extremes of passion, despair, love and death. Perhaps the most powerful artistic expression of unrequited love, Berlioz鈥檚 Symphonie fantastique is a dark, vivid fantasy inspired by the woman who would eventually become his wife.

Strauss too had just married when he composed the soaring love theme of Don Juan. Elgar鈥檚 last major work, the Cello Concerto, traces more questioning shades of emotion. There鈥檚 a beautiful melancholy and tentative yearning to this work, coloured by the First World War: an elegy by any other name.

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