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18 Jul 2013, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2013 Prom 9: Stenhammar, Szymanowski & R. Strauss

Prom 9: Stenhammar, Szymanowski & R. Strauss
Prom 9: Stenhammar, Szymanowski & R. Strauss
19:00 Thu 18 Jul 2013 Royal Albert Hall
Nordic forests, Alpine sunlight and a Moorish nocturne. The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Thomas SøndergÃ¥rd play Wilhelm Stenhammar’s Excelsior!, Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony and Szymanowski’s opulent symphony subtitled ‘The Song of the Night’.
Nordic forests, Alpine sunlight and a Moorish nocturne. The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Thomas SøndergÃ¥rd play Wilhelm Stenhammar’s Excelsior!, Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony and Szymanowski’s opulent symphony subtitled ‘The Song of the Night’.

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Evocations of Nordic forests, Persian gardens and snow-capped mountains feature in Thomas Søndergård’s first Prom as Principal Conductor of tonight’s orchestra.

Wilhelm Stenhammar’s 1896 symphonic overture Excelsior! leads into the opulent sound-world of Karol Syzmanowski’s Symphony No. 3, ‘The Song of the Night’. A journey from dusk to dawn and on into the night, Richard Strauss’s Alpine Symphony is a much a statement of the composer’s personal philosophy as a description of the natural world at its most dramatic.