Name: Viennese Whirl
Start: 2024-04-20
End: 2024-04-20
Location: The Bridgewater Hall

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BBC Philharmonic

Orchestra

Conductor

Anja Bihlmaier

Instrumentalist

Josef Špaček

Violin

Viennese Whirl

Manchester

United Kingdom

The Bridgewater Hall

Public

Emperor Waltz

The Blue Danube Waltz

Symphony No. 7

Violinkonzert (Dem Andenken eines Engels)

Sharan Allad

Approved

With a heritage as rich as a Sachertorte, tonight’s concert gorges on the finest musical ingredients of Austria’s capital. Beethoven’s symphonies are cornerstones of the orchestral world – our very own sponge cake base! The Seventh Symphony is a feast of rhythm and dance, although Beethoven came from Spanish stock and maybe this just got the better of him when he cooked it up – expect more barnstorming than boleros. A hundred years on, the music of Berg stirred from the melting pot of 1900s Vienna. His Violin Concerto is, by turn, angelic and angst-ridden, one of the most innovative pieces ever written for the instrument. ‘Waltz King’ Johann Strauss II provides the icing on the cake with his Emperor Waltz, with a bonus trip down the river Danube, our dance through Vienna is complete.

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Viennese Whirl by Strauss II, Beethoven, Berg, Sat 20 Apr 2024, From (2024/2024), Conductor Anja Bihlmaier, The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, United Kingdom

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