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The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

BBC Proms: 2014 Season: Prom 26

BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 26: Part 1: Prom 26 (part 1): Shostakovich and Berio

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2014 Season

Part 1 Part 1: Prom 26 (part 1): Shostakovich and Berio

2014

Prom 26 (part 1): Shostakovich and Berio

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European Union Youth Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko in Berio's Sinfonia.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, London Voices and the European Union Youth Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko in a performance of Berio's Sinfonia.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Tom Service

European Union Youth Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko live at the BBC Proms play Berio's witty Sinfonia, contrasted after the interval with with Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony

Berio: Sinfonia

8.00pm Interval

8.20pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43

London Voices
European Union Youth Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

A contemporary classic opens this concert from the European Union Youth Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko . Berio's Sinfonia is a witty, whistle-stop tour through centuries of Western culture - a high-water mark of 1960s experimentalism, with musical references extending from Bach and Brahms to Boulez and The Beatles. The orchestra and eight amplified soloists muse their way through an intricate and joyous web of quotations that frustrate interpretation even as they invite it.

Shostakovich's embattled Fourth Symphony asks the same questions as Berio, trying to reconcile the same conflicts and contradictions and finding only Babel and madness in one of the composer's most confrontational works.



This Prom will be repeated on Monday 11th August at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2014

BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 26

Prom 26

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

All broadcasts from the 120th season of the BBC Proms.

Semyon Bychkov conducts the European Union Youth Orchestra in Berio and Shostakovich

Semyon Bychkov conducts the European Union Youth Orchestra in music by Berio and Shostakovich

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