Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Programme
| Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) | Piano Concerto no. 2 in B flat major, Op.83 | |
| Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) | Symphony no. 8 in B minor "Unfinished", D.759 | |
| Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) | Don Juan, Op.20 |
Performers
| London Philharmonic Orchestra | |
| Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Conductor |
| Lars Vogt | Piano |
A tour de force of Romantic orchestra classics from Brahms, Schubert and R Strauss.
For some, Brahms's Second Piano Concerto is his ultimate musical summation of human civilisation.
His First Concerto had spoken of the love and yearning of a young man, but when he came to write his second 22 years later, Brahms was a changed being. Gone was any sense of confident swagger - the sort that propels Strauss's Don Juan forward. In its place was a feeling of pregnant expectation more akin to that which opens Schubert's Unfinished Symphony.
Lars Vogt joins Principal Guest Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin for a performance of Brahms's strangely intimate yet wholly magisterial concerto.
