Music at the pinnacle of ambition with Vladimir Ashkenazy and Stephen Kovacevich.
Richard Strauss has a reputation for big music. He fills the stage with instruments and takes on bold subjects and ambitious musical forms. And it's all on show in An Alpine Symphony. Strauss calls for 120 musicians, including 20 horns (4 or 5 is the norm!), and he takes you on a breathtaking journey that brings nature - and the mountaintop - into the concert hall.
In this concert, our principal conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy is joined by one of the world's most distinguished pianists, Stephen Kovacevich, playing music by Beethoven. This revolutionary music is lyrical and exhilarating, powerful and poetic - the creation of a composer at the pinnacle of inventiveness.
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No.4
R STRAUSS An Alpine Symphony
Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor
Stephen Kovacevich piano
Pre-concert talk by David Larkin in the Northern Foyer, 45 minutes before each performance.
AUDIO PLAYER LISTING
Track 1 - BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No.4 in G, Op.58: 3rd movement Steven Kovacevich (piano) with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by
Sir Colin Davis
PHILIPS 475 6319
Track 2 - R STRAUSS An Alpine Symphony: Sunrise
Track 3 - R STRAUSS An Alpine Symphony: On the Alm
Track 4 - R STRAUSS An Alpine Symphony: Storm
Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta
DECCA ELOQUENCE 480 0408
Audio kindly supplied by Silver Partner Universal Music.