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BBC Proms: 2018: Prom 60: Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Prom 60: Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

2018

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Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra perform Shostakovich and Bernstein.

Live from BBC Proms: Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra perform Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins them for Bernstein's Age of Anxiety

Live from BBC Proms: Marin Alsop and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins them in Bernstein's Age of Anxiety
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Bernstein Slava! (A Political Overture)
Bernstein Symphony No 2 'The Age of Anxiety'

c8.40pm
Interval Proms Plus:  Poet, playwright and librettist Glyn Maxwell has retraced Auden's travels in Iceland. He joins Polly Clark, whose recent novel Larchfield explored Auden's early years teaching in Scotland, to discuss Auden's poetry and his influence on other artists. Hosted by Matthew Sweet.

c. 9.00pm
Shostakovich Symphony No 5 in D minor

Jean‐Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 
Marin Alsop (conductor)

Marin Alsop, a protégée of Leonard Bernstein, returns to the Proms with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for a politically charged climax to our bank-holiday Bernstein weekend. The concert culminates in Shostakovich’s ambiguous Fifth Symphony, whose triumphant finale can be heard either as political protest or capitulation to Stalin’s Soviet regime. Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins the orchestra for Bernstein’s ‘The Age of Anxiety’ – a musical quest for faith in a broken, post-war world – and the evening opens with the boisterous Slava!, a ‘political overture’ dedicated to cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.



BBC Proms: 2018

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