Proms 2022 Prom 65: Berliner Philharmoniker plays Schnittke and Bruckner
Prom 65: Berliner Philharmoniker plays Schnittke and Bruckner
19:30
Sun 4 Sep 2022
Royal Albert Hall
In their final concert at the 2022 Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms, the Berliner Philharmoniker are joined by Daniel Harding to perform Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, and viola soloist Tabea Zimmermann rediscovers Schnittke’s powerful but neglected Viola Concerto.
In their final concert at the 2022 Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms, the Berliner Philharmoniker are joined by Daniel Harding to perform Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, and viola soloist Tabea Zimmermann rediscovers Schnittke’s powerful but neglected Viola Concerto.
Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 is as vividly colourful as the composer’s original scenario for the work (later withdrawn) with its knights, maidens, hunting and dancing. In their second and final concert at the 2022 Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Daniel Harding explore a symphony subtitled the ‘Romantic’ by the composer himself and one that draws deeply on the German Romantic tradition of Weber and Wagner. First they support Tabea Zimmermann – whose playing is, in the words of The Strad, of ‘breathtaking beauty’ – as she rediscovers another Cold War classic: the intense melancholy and sardonic humour of the Viola Concerto, written in 1985 by the Russian dissident composer Alfred Schnittke. It couldn’t find more committed champions.
