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Prom 49

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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Festival: BBC Proms
Stephen Hough makes his second festival
appearance this summer playing Mendelssohn’s
Piano Concerto No. 1, sight-read by Liszt in the
Érard piano showroom in Paris in 1831 to
Mendelssohn’s amazement. Under its Principal
Conductor Robin Ticciati, the Scottish Chamber
Orchestra performs another work of the same year,
Berlioz’s King Lear overture, and Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’
Symphony, described by Berlioz as ‘a funeral oration
for a great hero’. George Benjamin pays tribute to
Bach in orchestrating
excerpts from The Art of
Fugue.

Tickets £7.50 - £36.
BBC Proms
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