Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble

Change of Artist
We are sorry to announce that Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor) is indisposed and therefore unable to take part in the above concert. We are grateful to Jonathan Berman (conductor) for stepping in as his replacement. The programme remains the same.

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.