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1 Aug 2011, Royal Albert Hall

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Prom 23: Beethoven, Saint-Saëns & Liszt

19:30 Mon 1 Aug 2011 Royal Albert Hall

Saint-Saëns’s ‘Egyptian’ concerto, Liszt’s Romantic epic and Beethoven’s dramatic Fourth Symphony.

Programme

- - Ludwig van Beethoven
  - Symphony No. 4 in B flat major(34 mins)
- - Camille Saint‐Saëns
  - Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, ‘Egyptian’(27 mins)
- - Jules Massenet
  - Poëme pastoral(4 mins)No. 5 Crepuscule (arranged by Stephen Hough) (encore)
- - interval
- - Franz Liszt
  - Dante Symphony(41 mins)

Performers

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda
conductor
conductor
Sir Stephen Hough
piano
piano
Julia Doyle
soprano
soprano
CBSO Chorus
women's voices
women's voices

Composers

About this event

First the sunny surfaces and barely contained energy of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony. Next, a favourite Proms performer in the last of five discreetly glittering, very French piano concertos he has done so much to champion in recent years.

After the interval, a major peak of Romanticism as conceived by one of this year's anniversary composers, Liszt, whom the young Saint-Saëns knew and greatly admired.

Written back to back with the Faust Symphony heard earlier in the season, Liszt's Dante Symphony should leave listeners looking to the heights of Heaven.