大象传媒

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Donald Macleod

Franz Welser-M枚st and Cleveland Orchestra live at the 大象传媒 Proms with music by Brahms and a UK premiere of a new work by J枚rg Widmann.

Brahms: Tragic Overture
J枚rg Widmann: Teufel Amor (UK premiere)

7.50pm Interval

8.10pm
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-M枚st (conductor)

The Cleveland Orchestra begins its second concert at the 大象传媒 Proms featuring music by Brahms and J枚rg Widmann with Brahms's Tragic Overture, a work which lives up to its name with turbulent intensity. This year's cycle of Brahms symphonies is brought to a conclusion with a performance of the sunny Second. The composer was in unusually high spirits while composing it, joking with his publisher, 'I have never written anything so sad'. The result, in fact, sets aside Brahms's habitual seriousness and dramatic tensions in an open-hearted score of great warmth and appeal. In between these two works is young German J枚rg Widmann's Teufel Amor - a musical account of the contradictions, tensions and resolutions of love, inspired by Schiller's lost poem.