Wigmore Hall36 Wigmore Street, London, Greater London, W1U 2BP, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
| Sunday 26 October 2025 | 19:30 |
Programme
| Strauss II, Johann (1825-1899) | Kaiserwalzer (Emperor Waltz), Op.437 (arr. Arnold Schoenberg) | |
| Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896) | Symphony no. 2 in C minor, WAB 102 (arr. Anthony Payne) |
Performers
| Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble |
In 2012, the Academy’s Principal, Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, asked composer Anthony Payne (of Elgar's Third Symphony fame) if he would reignite the reductive principles of Schoenberg's arrangements for his Society for Musical Performance in a new version of Bruckner's Symphony No. 2. Whilst employing a slightly larger ensemble than the core chamber group used by Schoenberg in our opener – Johann Strauss’s ‘Emperor Waltz’ – the distilled scoring serves to reveal the luminescent appeal of a little-known 19th-century masterpiece.
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