BBC SSO: Heroic Strauss & Prokofiev Piano Concerto 4

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Richard Strauss' Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, the musical depiction of a high-spirited trickster that surely inspired more than one generation of cartoon music composers, is in the first item on a weighty programme. Denis Kozhukhin solos on Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 4; Richard Strauss' Prelude to Act 1 of Guntram is as much as most of us will ever get to hear of Strauss' seldom-played first opera; while Schumann's Symphony No 3 (Rhenish) is a virtuoso rendition of the composer's beloved Rhineland as pure music.