BBC Proms 2023

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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: 2023: Prom 16: The Hallé perform Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony

Prom 16: The Hallé perform Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony

2023

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2023, Prom 16: The Hallé perform Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony

Live at the BBC Proms: Sir Mark Elder conducts the Hallé in Rachmaninov and Shostakovich.

Live at the BBC Proms: Sir Mark Elder conducts the Hallé in Rachmaninov's choral symphony The Bells and Shostakovich's mighty Fifth Symphony.

Live at the BBC Proms: The Halle and conductor Sir Mark Elder in Rachmaninov's The Bells and Shostakovich's mighty Fifth Symphony.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Rachmaninov: The Bells

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Interval: Martin Handley is joined in the Radio 3 box by Rachmaninov expert, Philip Bullock, to discuss The Bells, its origins and influences.

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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor


Mané Galoyan, soprano
Dmytro Popov, tenor
Andrei Kymach, baritone
BBC Symphony Chorus
Hallé Choir
Hallé
Sir Mark Elder, conductor

Rachmaninov’s The Bells opens this all-Russian programme from Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé. Based on an Edgar Allan Poe poem, this magnificent choral symphony blends gothic drama with mystical intensity, haunted by the tolling of the Dies irae chant. Fear of death also lurks beneath the triumphant fanfares and jollity of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 – the composer’s attempt to satisfy Stalin and the Soviet regime after his career-risking, provocative opera The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

BBC Proms: 2023

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