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BBC Proms: 2018

BBC Proms: 2018: Prom 32: Inside Shostakovich

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Prom 32: Inside Shostakovich

06/08/2018

2018

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2018, Prom 32: Inside Shostakovich

Live at the BBC Proms: Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon and pianist Denis Kozhukhin.

Live at the BBC Proms: the Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon and Denis Kozhukhin perform Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No 2 in F and Symphony No 9 in E flat.

Live at BBC Proms: The Aurora Orchestra, pianist Denis Kozhukhin and conductor Nicholas Collon in Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No 2 in F and Symphony No 9 in Eb 

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service

10.15pm
Dmitri Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No 2 in F major

10.35pm
Tom Service and Nicholas Collon present Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9, with live excerpts

10.55pm
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No 9 in E flat major

Denis Kozhukhin, piano
Tom Service, presenter
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon, conductor

Presenter Tom Service, Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra take their audience inside Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony - taking it apart to reveal its intricate construction, before putting it back together again in a complete performance from memory.

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 2018 season of the BBC Proms.

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