Strauss’s Horn Concerto No. 2
Date & Time
Sun, Dec 8, 2024, 15:00Strange but true: they used to call Dvořák’s Eighth his ‘English’ symphony.Yet its lilting melodies and exuberant dance rhythms could hardly be more Czech – the sound of a composer who’s thoroughly at home, and loving it. Pure sunshine, in other words, and in the hands of conductor Valentina Peleggi it’s a gloriously tuneful climax to a concert that begins with Mozart’s comedy overture and stars the internationally-acclaimed young British horn player Ben Goldscheider in Richard Strauss’s playful Second Horn... Read full text
Keywords: Symphony Concert
Musicians
Valentina Peleggi | Conductor |
Ben Goldscheider | Horn |
Program
Overture, The Marriage of Figaro | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Horn Concerto No. 2 | Richard Strauss |
Symphony No. 8 | Antonín Dvořák |