BBC Proms 2017 Prom 40 - Brahms, Berg, Larcher and Schumann (320kbps mp3)

Live at BBC Proms: the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Robin Ticciati with violinist Christian Tetzlaff in Brahms, Berg's Violin Concerto, Schumann and Thomas Larcher

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Presented by Penny Gore.

00. Introductory commentary
01. Brahms - Tragic Overture
02. Berg - Violin Concerto
02i. Introduction to Berg’s Violin Concerto
03. Thomas Larcher - Nocturne - Insomnia (UK premiere)
03i. Introduction to Larcher’s Nocturne, Insomnia
04. Schumann: Symphony No 3 in E flat major, 'Rhenish'
04i. Introduction to Schumann’s Symphony No 3
05. Interval, Proms Extra, sleep and insomnia
Nick Littlehales, sports sleep coach and chair of the Sleep Council, talks with novelist AL Kennedy and presenter Rana Mitter about sleep and insomnia. 
Recorded earlier as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College.

Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Robin Ticciati (conductor)

Brahms's Tragic Overture is not so much tragic as a 'serious' follow-up to his more frivolous Academic Festival Overture.

Dedicated 'To the memory of an angel', Berg's luminous Violin Concerto is an intensely moving personal testament to the death of a young woman, quoting Bach's funeral chorale 'Es ist genug'.

Thomas Larcher's nocturnal wanderings receive their UK premiere before a joyous journey down the Rhine in Schumann's Third Symphony, which climaxes in a musical homage to Cologne Cathedral.

Broadcast 15 August 2017