Prom 65: The Berliner Philharmoniker performs Schnittke and Bruckner

Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 is as vividly colourful as the composer’s original scenario for the work (later withdrawn) with its knights, maidens, hunting and dancing. In their second and final concert at the 2022 BBC Proms, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Daniel Harding explore a symphony subtitled the ‘Romantic’ by the composer himself and one that draws deeply on the German Romantic tradition of Weber and Wagner. First they support Tabea Zimmermann – whose playing is, in the words of The Strad, of ‘breathtaking beauty’ – as she rediscovers another Cold War classic: the intense melancholy and sardonic humour of the Viola Concerto, written in 1985 by the Russian dissident composer Alfred Schnittke. It couldn’t find more committed champions.

£18–£72 (plus booking fee)