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Prom 61 (part 2): San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas

Episode 2 of 2

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony in Beethoven's Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica).

Live at the 大象传媒 Proms: the San Francisco Symphony with their Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas and pianist Yuja Wang play music by Ives and Bartok and Beethoven's Third Symphony

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Ives: Decoration Day (New England Holidays Symphony)
Bart贸k: Piano Concerto No. 2

8.20 pm INTERVAL

8.40 pm
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica'

Yuja Wang (piano)
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

Chinese virtuoso Yuja Wang is the soloist in Bart贸k'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 ground-breaking 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.

1 hour, 20 minutes

Last on

Mon 31 Aug 2015 20:40

Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica'

  • Xangai

    Gago Grego

    Ensemble: Project Jam Sandwich.
  • Trad arranged Project Jam Sandwich

    Kopanitsa

    Ensemble: Project Jam Sandwich.
  • Trad arranged Project Jam Sandwich

    Ulidzele

    Ensemble: Project Jam Sandwich.
  • John Zorn

    Briel

    Ensemble: Project Jam Sandwich.
  • Charles Ives

    Variations on "America"

    Performer: Simon Preston (organ).

Broadcast

  • Mon 31 Aug 2015 20:40

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