BBC Proms 2018 Prom 68, Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko perform Beethoven and Strauss (320kbps .mp3)

BBC Proms 2018 Prom 68, Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko perform Beethoven and Strauss (320kbps .mp3)

Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra play Beethoven and Strauss.

01. Strauss - Don Juan
01i. Introduction to BBC Proms 2018 Prom 68
02. Strauss - Death and Transfiguration
02i. Introduction to Death and Transfiguration
03. Beethoven - Symphony No 7 in A major
03i. Introduction to Beethoven’s Symphony No 7
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko, conductor

For their second concert, the Berliner Philharmoniker and its Music Director Designate Kirill Petrenko pair two of the 19th century’s greatest symphonic poems with Beethoven’s much-loved Seventh Symphony. If Don Juan celebrates the life of the body – energetic passions, desires and cynical ambitions – then the composer’s Death and Transfiguration, a vivid portrait of the last hours of a dying artist, explores ideas of the mind and spirit. These two colourful musical narratives are set against the dance-driven energy of Beethoven’s symphony.


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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
Broadcast: 2 September 2018