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BBC Proms

Music: Classical

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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: 2015 Season: Prom 53

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 53: Part 1: Prom 53 (part 1): Bartok - The Miraculous Mandarin, Shostakovich - Orango

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Prom 53 (part 1): Bartok - The Miraculous Mandarin, Shostakovich - Orango

Part 1 Part 1: Prom 53 (part 1): Bartok - The Miraculous Mandarin, Shostakovich - Orango

2015

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The Philharmonia Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen performs music by Bartok and Mozart.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, the Philharmonia Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen. Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin. Mozart: Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor (soloist: David Fray).

The Philharmonia Orchestra with Esa-Pekka Salonen, live at the BBC Proms.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor 

Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin 
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K491 

8.40 pm INTERVAL

9.00 pm
Shostakovich: Orango - Prologue (orch. G. McBurney) 

David Fray (piano)

Natalia Pavlova (Susanna)
Natalia Yakimova (Renée)
Alexander Shagun (Armand Fleury)
Alexander Trofimov (Paul Mâche)
Vladimir Babokin (Foreigner 1)
Oleg Losev (Foreigner 2)
Dmitry Koleushko (Zoologist)
Ivan Novoselov (Orango)
Leo Elhardt (Voice from the Crowd)
Denis Beganski (Master of Ceremonies)
Yuri Yevchuk (Veselchak)

Philharmonia Voices 
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
Irina Brown (stage director)

Shostakovich's Orango - an incomplete opera whose manuscript came to light only in 2004 - is a glossy fusion of wit and political venom. The 'Orango' of the title is half man, half ape - a symbol of the decadent West. It's a work matched for vivid colouring by Bartók's violent and sexually charged ballet-pantomime The Miraculous Mandarin. French pianist David Fray returns following his Proms debut in 2011 to play Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 - written at the height of the composer's fame in Vienna as a performer of his own works.

BBC Proms: 2015

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 53

Prom 53

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 121st season of the BBC Proms.

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Bartok, Mozart and Shostakovich

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in music by Bartok, Mozart and Shostakovich

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