BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 27: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo conducts Richard Strauss’s Alpine Symphony, Mozart’s E-flat Piano Concerto K271 (Seong-Jin Cho) and Kaija Saariaho’s Mirage (Silja Aalto & Anssi Karttunen). Live on BBC Radio 3. | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 27: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo conducts Richard Strauss’s Alpine Symphony, Mozart’s E-flat Piano Concerto K271 (Seong-Jin Cho) and Kaija Saariaho’s Mirage (Silja Aalto & Anssi Karttunen). Live on BBC Radio 3.

Friday, August 9, 2024 Royal Albert Hall, London We were summoned for 18:00, for this early-evening Prom, which culminated in Richard Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie, his farewell to the extravagant, large-scale symphonic poem, opening and closing in darkness, daytime activities focussed on climbing a mountain with all the thrills and spills involved, including coming back down. … Continue reading BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 27: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo conducts Richard Strauss’s Alpine Symphony, Mozart’s E-flat Piano Concerto K271 (Seong-Jin Cho) and Kaija Saariaho’s Mirage (Silja Aalto & Anssi Karttunen). Live on BBC Radio 3.