Barbican Concerts
Nielsen Symphony No 6
Overview
Mitsuko Uchida
Sir Colin Davis and Mitsuko Uchida in conversation
HAYDN: Symphony No 99
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 2
NIELSEN: Symphony No 6
Sir Colin Davis conductor
Mitsuko Uchida piano
London Symphony Orchestra
Tickets: £8 £14 £19 £25 £32
Beethoven made his public debut as a pianist with this dramatic concerto in 1795 – at a concert held to raise funds for widows and orphans. Haydn composed his 99th Symphony for a visit to London in 1793; it includes a strikingly elegiac wind choir. When Nielsen began work on his final symphony (1925), he thought it might prove ‘more amiable and smooth’ than his previous works. It is certainly irradiated by sunlight and shadows.
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The Nielsen and Beethoven series continue in June and into Autumn/Winter 2011, which are also now on sale.
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Sir Colin Davis and Mitsuko Uchida on Beethoven & Nielsen
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