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Proms 2018 Prom 60: Marin Alsop & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

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Prom 60: Marin Alsop & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
20:00 Mon 27 Aug 2018 Royal Albert Hall
Bernstein-prot茅g茅e Marin Alsop returns to the Proms with one of the great American symphony orchestras to perform a politically charged programme that includes Shostakovich鈥檚 Fifth Symphony alongside Bernstein鈥檚 own Second Symphony.
Bernstein-prot茅g茅e Marin Alsop returns to the Proms with one of the great American symphony orchestras to perform a politically charged programme that includes Shostakovich鈥檚 Fifth Symphony alongside Bernstein鈥檚 own Second Symphony.

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Marin Alsop, a prot茅g茅e 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鈥檚 ambiguous Fifth Symphony, whose triumphant finale can be heard either as political protest or capitulation to Stalin鈥檚 Soviet regime. Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins the orchestra for Bernstein鈥檚 鈥楾he Age of Anxiety鈥 鈥 a musical quest for faith in a broken, post-war world 鈥 and the evening opens with the boisterous Slava!, a 鈥榩olitical overture鈥 dedicated to cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.

Broadcast on 大象传媒 Four on Friday 31 August

Image: Jean-Yves Thibaudet