London Philharmonic Orchestra: New Beginnings
Nézet-Séguin conducts Brahms and Strauss
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2
Schubert Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)
R Strauss Don Juan
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor
Lars Vogt piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Brahms’s first Piano Concerto spoke of the love and yearning of a young man. When he came to write his second 22 years later, Brahms was a changed being. Gone was any sense of confident swagger – the sort that propels Strauss’s Don Juan forward. In its place was a feeling of pregnant
19:30-21:30, £9-65
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London SE1 8XX
Wed 19 Nov 2014