BBC Proms 2018, Prom 21 - An Alpine Symphony (320kbps .mp3)
Live at BBC Proms: BBC SSO & Ilan Volkov are joined by the Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet to perform G.F. Haas' Concerto Grosso No 1, alongside Strauss' Alpine Symphony.
A concert of sonic scope and spectacle from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov climaxes in Strauss's dramatic An Alpine Symphony, which paints a vivid picture of a day's hiking in the Bavarian mountains.
The Alps also make their way into Georg Friedrich Haas's Concerto Grosso in the form of four alphorns - enormous wooden horns, whose other-worldly overtones also inspired Rossini and Berlioz.
The concert opens with Mozart's Notturno, an unfinished Salzburg carnival serenade, whose four separate instrumental groups will be dispersed around the Royal Albert Hall for maximum acoustic drama.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Kate Molleson
01. Mozart - Serenade No 8 (Notturno) for Four Orchestras
01i. General introduction to BBC Proms 2018, Proms 21
02. G.F. Haas - Concerto Grosso No 1
02i. Introduction to Haas’ Concerto Grosso No 1
02ii. Outro to Haas’ Concerto Grosso No 1
03. Balthasar Streiff - Lioba
03i. Outro to the first half of the concert
04. Strauss - Alpine Symphony
04i. Introduction to Strauss’ Alpine Symphony
Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet
Ilan Volkov (conductor)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
05. BBC Proms 2018, Prom 21, Interval, Proms Plus
1925 Interval: Proms Plus Abbie Garrington and Dan Richards discuss the appeal of the mountains and how wild landscapes have inspired creativity. Presented by New Generation Thinker Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough.
Broadcast: 30 July 2018, BBC Radio 3
