Sir Antonio Pappano & Yuja Wang

Date & Time

Sat, Feb 19, 2022, 19:00

Venue

“I have an idea for a new work, which has no programme, but which will express what we understand by zest for life or expressions of life … where one would simply say, ’This is life’.” Thus Carl Nielsen wrote of his Fourth Symphony, which he called “The Inextinguishable”. Composed between 1914 and 1916, it is considered to be a milestone in Scandinavian music, reflecting the events of the Great War with the dramatic timpani duel in the final movement.... Read full text

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Musicians

Sir Antonio Pappano	Conductor
Yuja Wang	Piano
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Program

Othello, op. 93	Antonín Dvořák
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major	Franz Liszt
Symphony No. 4 “The inextinguishable”	Carl Nielsen

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