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BBC Proms: 2020: Haitink and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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Haitink and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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Murray Perahia joins Bernard Haitink and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Murray Perahia joins Bernard Haitink and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for a contrasting programme of Mozart and Shostakovich from the BBC Proms 2008.

In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. 

Murray Perahia and Bernard Haitink have a musical rapport that has given us countless magnificent performances. This performance from the BBC Proms in 2008 saw Perahia return to the Proms, following a gap of 20 years, to perform one of Mozart's greatest piano concertos. 

It was while writing his Fourth Symphony that Shostakovich was denounced in a newspaper article entitled ‘Muddle Instead of Music’. He continued composing the work in private, but it had to wait 25 years – beyond the death of Stalin – before it was first heard in public, in 1961.

Presented by Ian Skelly

7.30pm
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491

c.8.10pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 in C minor

Murray Perahia (piano)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)

(From BBC Proms 2008, 9 September)

BBC Proms: 2020

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