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Proms 2016 Prom 66

Prom 66
Prom 66: Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle – Julian Anderson, Dvořák and Brahms
19:30 Sat 3 Sep 2016 Royal Albert Hall
For their second Prom of the year, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic pair Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances with Brahms’s Symphony No. 2, and open the concert with the world premiere of a work by Julian Anderson.
For their second Prom of the year, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic pair Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances with Brahms’s Symphony No. 2, and open the concert with the world premiere of a work by Julian Anderson.

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Proms interval talk: Brahms's Second Symphony
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Proms interval talk: Brahms's Second Symphony
A discussion of Brahms's Second Symphony.
Sep '16BBC Radio 3

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Overlooking a lake in the Austrian resort of Pörtschach, Johannes Brahms created a symphony that captured all he saw: the beauty of the sunset; the stillness of the night; the peaceful awakening to a new day. And yet its musicians were to play, said Brahms, as if ‘with a mourning ribbon around their arm’.

Brahms’s meeting of glowing melancholy and piercing brightness is the culmination of the Berlin Philharmonic’s second Prom under Sir Simon Rattle, following Dvořák’s colourful Slavonic Dances and a new work from Julian Anderson.

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