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TUESDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2009
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5.45pm Proms Intro Rob Cowan talks to the writer-broadcaster Lindsay Kemp and Denis McCaldin about Haydn's symphonies.
Prom 62: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Date Tuesday 1 September 2009
- Time7.30pm - c9.30pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £12 - £54 price band C or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
- This programme is no longer available.
In the second of their two Proms, Mariss Jansons and his Dutch orchestra bring Haydn's 'Military' Symphony, composed on his second visit to London, in 1794–5, at a time when England and Holland were allied with Austria against republican France.
According to an early review, the slow movement – graphically portraying 'the hellish roar of war increase to a climax of horrid sublimity!' – was greeted with repeated cries of 'Encore!' in which 'the Ladies themselves could not forbear' to join.
Shostakovich's Tenth – one of the composer's most popular symphonies, and a favourite of tonight's conductor and orchestra – intertwines the composer's personal motto theme with that of a student with whom he was infatuated.
- Haydn Symphony No.100 in G major, 'Military' (25 mins)
- interval
- Shostakovich Symphony No.10 in E minor (55 mins)
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Mariss Jansons conductor
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