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WEDNESDAY 19 AUGUST 2009
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- 5.45pm Proms Intro: Shostakovich
- 7.30pm Prom 46: BBC Symphony Orchestra
5.45pm Proms Intro
Andrew McGregor discusses the music of Shostakovich with musicologist David Nice and lecturer in Russian Dr Philip Ross Bullock (University of Oxford).
Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 during tonight's interval.
Prom 46: BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Date Wednesday 19 August 2009
- Time 7.30pm - c10.00pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £7 - £35 price band A 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.
Renowned Shostakovich interpreter Semyon Bychkov conducts the composer's astonishingly powerful and strikingly cinematic 1957 symphony, which on the surface commemorates the failed anti-Tsarist uprising of 1905, but deep down rages at the Soviet authorities.
Detlev Glanert's new piece is a foretaste of his forthcoming opera, Das Holzschiff ('The Wooden Ship'). Winner of the 1998 Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition, and recently acclaimed by Gramophone as 'a virtuoso in the grandest of Russian traditions', Denis Matsuev makes his Proms debut in Rachmaninov's devilishly demanding set of variations on Paganini's most famous Caprice.
- Detlev Glanert Shoreless River (c18 mins) (BBC co-commission with WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, and National Symphony Orchestra, Washington DC: UK premiere)
- Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (25 mins)
- interval
- Shostakovich Symphony No.11 'The Year 1905' (63 mins)
- Denis Matsuev piano
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Semyon Bychkov conductor
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