Prom 61: San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas

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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom

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Programme

Ives, Charles (1874-1954)	A Symphony: New England Holidays – Decoration Day
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)	Piano Concerto no. 2 in G major, Sz 95
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)	Symphony no. 3 in E flat major "Eroica", Op.55
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)	Hungarian Dance no. 10 in E major

Performers

Yuja Wang	Piano
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas	Conductor

Chinese virtuoso Yuja Wang is the soloist in Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto – a work the composer intended to pose ‘fewer difficulties for the orchestra’ and to be ’more pleasing in its thematic material’ than his First. Beethoven’s emotionally charged ‘Eroica’ Symphony forms the second half – the groundbreaking symphony that would pave the way for the mighty Romantic works of Mahler and Bruckner. The concert opens with Charles Ives’s atmospheric Decoration Day, inspired by his father’s marching band.

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San Francisco Eroica fails to triumph

George Slater-Walker, 31st August

Another low-energy second half let down a strong first in the San Francisans' second appearance at the Proms under Michael Tilson Thomas.

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