live from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Lars Vogt (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Mark Elder.
Mark Elder conducted the premiere of Shostakovich's incidental music to the 1931 comedy revue
Hypothetically Murdered last November. Tonight's Prom gives a second chance to hear this witty and irreverent music, a brilliant pastiche of various musical genres.
Dvorak Overture: Othello
Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor
8.20 Bulgakov: Myths and Reality
Professor Anatoli Smeliansky , archivist at the Moscow Arts Theatre, explores the relationship between the writer and power in the light of new research on Mikhail Bulgakov.
Reader Julian Hale.
8.40 Shostakovich, arr Gerard McBurney Suite: Hypothetically Murdered
Strauss Till Eulenspiegel