Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D major
Sarah Gibson
warp & weft
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4 in E minor
Tobias Feldmann
violin
BBC Philharmonic
Anja Bihlmaier
conductor
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Reviewed: 8 August, 2024
Venue: Royal Albert Hall
For Brahms, composing music was a quest to balance head and heart. The composer’s final symphony is the most exquisite example of that mission, a piece as radiant as poetry and as perfect as a mathematical equation. In tonight’s Prom Brahms’s work of Apollonian perfection is balanced by the outpouring of joy that is Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, plus Sarah Gibson’s warp & weft, inspired by the work of Canadian artist Miriam Schapiro. Tobias Feldmann makes his Proms debut for this concert with the BBC Philharmonic under Anja Bihlmaier.
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