Prom 34: R. Strauss, Mozart & Nielsen

In the first of his two concerts with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thomas Søndergård directs Nielsen’s Fifth Symphony, shaped by the conflicts and oppositions of the First World War and touching on a bleak nostalgia that is also at the core of Strauss’s tone-poem Tod und Verklärung (‘Death and Transfiguration’) – a musical dramatisation of the roaming thoughts of a dying artist. Profundity is balanced by virtuosity in the ‘complicated nonsense’ of Strauss’s youthful Burleske and Mozart’s sunny Rondo in A major, both featuring former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Francesco Piemontesi.

Seats  £7.50  to  £38  (plus  booking  fee).