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BBC Proms: 2014 Season: Prom 07

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BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 07: Part 1: Prom 7 (part 1): Shostakovich, Bartok and Tavener

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2014

Prom 7 (part 1): Shostakovich, Bartok and Tavener

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Jiri Belohlavek conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Tavener and Bartok.

Jiri Belohlavek conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Tavener: Gnosis (Sarah Connolly: mezzo and Michael Cox: alto flute). Bartok: Violin Concerto No 2 (with Isabelle Faust).

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Penny Gore

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Jirí Belohlávek live at the BBC Proms. Shostakovich's great 10th Symphony, Isabelle Faust in Bartok's 2nd Violin Concerto , and a John Tavener premiere.

Tavener: Gnosis (BBC commission; world premiere)
Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2

7.30pm Interval

7.50pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93

Isabelle Faust (violin)
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Michael Cox (alto flute)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jirí Belohlávek (conductor)

Isabelle Faust's association with Bartók extends back to her very first recording. Now, fresh from an acclaimed disc of both the composer's violin concertos, she joins the BBC SO and Conductor Laureate Ji?í B?lohlávek for Bartók's Second Violin Concerto. Written under the threat of Fascism, it's a passionate national statement, lively with folk rhythms.

By the early 1950s and Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, threat had become reality. This violent, despairing work paints a vivid portrait ofthe horrors of Stalin's Russia. The evening opens with the first of two posthumous premieres this season from the late John Tavener ? some of the last works from England's great musical mystic. Gnosis - written for mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly with solo alto flute,strings and percussion. 

This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 24th July at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2014

BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 07

Prom 07

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BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jiri Belohlavek in John Tavener, Bartok and Shostakovich

Jiri Belohlavek conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by John Tavener, Bartok and Shostakovich

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