Tonight a visit to the 94th season of Henry Wood Proms by one of the world's great orchestras the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra under its new Chief
Conductor Riccardo Chailly. Part 1 Mozart
Overture Idomeneo
Piano Concerto No 19 in F (K 459). Soloist Radu Lupu
8.05*-8.25* One Hundred Years of Music
In the interval
Michael Berkeley talks to
Riccardo Chailly and Richard Osborne about the history and unique reputation of both the orchestra and its famous
Concertgebouw concert hall celebrating this year a combined centenary. Director DAVID STEVENS
Part 2 Bruckner
Symphony No 3 in D minor (1889 version)
Under conductors like
Mengelberg and Haitink the Concertgebouw Orchestra has established a world reputation in the Viennese late romantic repertoire. Tonight they perform the first of Bruckner's symphonies to exhibit his emerging mature style. Introduced by Michael Berkeley