Artists
- Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble
- Ryan Wigglesworthconductor
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Ryan Wigglesworth
Image credit: © Benjamin Ealovega
Bruckner and Strauss II
Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble
- Date
- Sun 26 Oct 2025, 7.30pm
- Tickets
- £40 £37 £33 £27 £18
- Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Ticket bookings are subject to a £4.00 booking fee. This fee covers the whole booking and is not per ticket
Programme
- Johann Strauss II1825-1899
- Kaiser-Walzer Op. 437(arranged by Arnold Schoenberg)
Interval
- Anton Bruckner1824-1896
- Symphony No. 2(arranged by Anthony Payne)
Overview
In 2012, the Academy’s Principal, Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, asked composer Anthony Payne (of Elgar's Third Symphony fame) if he would reignite the reductive principles of Schoenberg's arrangements for his Society for Musical Performance in a new version of Bruckner's Symphony No. 2. Whilst employing a slightly larger ensemble than the core chamber group used by Schoenberg in our opener – Johann Strauss’s ‘Emperor Waltz’ – the distilled scoring serves to reveal the luminescent appeal of a little-known 19th-century masterpiece.