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Prom 67: BBC SO plays Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony

Name: Prom 67: BBC SO plays Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony
Start: 2024-09-09T19:30:00
Location: Royal Albert Hall

BBC Symphony Orchestra

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One fast-rising star and one firmly established. The inimitable Patricia Kopatchinskaja returns to the festival for this concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the latest conducting sensation to have emerged from Finland, Tarmo Peltokoski. After soothing Vaughan Williams and stimulating Schoenberg, we hear Shostakovich’s symphonic bid to save his own life in the face of Stalin’s wrath. The composer’s Symphony No. 5 is his most enduring of ...

Program

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Greensleeves

Composer

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5

Arnold Schönberg - Violin Concerto

Participants

Tarmo Peltokoski

Conductor

Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Violin

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Producer