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BBC Proms: 2013 Season: Prom 55

BBC Proms: 2013: Prom 55: Part 1: Prom 55 (part 1): Lutoslawski, Shostakovich & Panufnik

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Prom 55

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2013

Prom 55 (part 1): Lutoslawski, Shostakovich & Panufnik

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The Warsaw Philharmonic under Antoni Wit performs music by Lutoslawski and Shostakovich.

A Prom in which Antoni Wit conducts the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra. Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No 2 in F (soloist: Alexander Melnikov).

Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra play Lutoslawski and Panufnik, with Alexander Melnikov in Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny


Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major

8.30pm Interval

8.50pm
Panufnik: Tragic Overture
Panufnik: Lullaby
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 in B minor

Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Antoni Wit (conductor)


Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra make their Proms debuts as the festival continues its focus on Polish music during Lutoslawski's centenary year. 
Written for the Warsaw Philharmonic in 1954, Lutoslawski's virtuosic folk-inflected Concerto for Orchestra creates a unique sound-world. 
Lauded for his recording of Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues, pianist Alexander Melnikov is the soloist in the composer's buoyant Piano Concerto No. 2. 
Andrzej Panufnik's Tragic Overture and Lullaby and Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony paint a vivid picture of two nations in parallel periods of anxiety.


An edited version of this Prom will be broadcast on Friday 30th August at 2pm.

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Antoni Wit conducts the Warsaw Philharmonic in Lutoslawski, Shostakovich and Panufnik

Petroc Trelawny presents Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra in their Proms debut, featuring music by Lutoslawski, Shostakovich and Panufnik

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