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Proms 2014 Prom 26: Shostakovich & Berio

Prom 26: Shostakovich & Berio
Prom 26: Shostakovich & Berio
19:30 Tue 5 Aug 2014 Royal Albert Hall
This concert from the European Union Youth Orchestra opens with Berio’s 20th-century classic, Sinfonia – a witty, whistle-stop tour through centuries of Western culture, from Bach to The Beatles. Shostakovich’s embattled Fourth Symphony attempts to reconcile the same conflicts and contradictions as Berio, but finds only Babel and madness, in one of the composer’s most confrontational works.
This concert from the European Union Youth Orchestra opens with Berio’s 20th-century classic, Sinfonia – a witty, whistle-stop tour through centuries of Western culture, from Bach to The Beatles. Shostakovich’s embattled Fourth Symphony attempts to reconcile the same conflicts and contradictions as Berio, but finds only Babel and madness, in one of the composer’s most confrontational works.

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A contemporary classic opens this concert from the European Union Youth Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko. Berio’s Sinfonia is a witty, whistle-stop tour through centuries of Western culture – a high-water mark of 1960s experimentalism, with musical references extending from Bach and Brahms to Boulez and The Beatles. The orchestra and eight amplified soloists muse their way through an intricate and joyous web of quotations that frustrate interpretation even as they invite it.

Shostakovich’s embattled Fourth Symphony asks the same questions as Berio, trying to reconcile the same conflicts and contradictions and finding only Babel and madness in one of the composer’s most confrontational works.

Please note that the advertised conductor, Semyon Bychkov, has had to withdraw from this Prom. The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms is grateful to Vasily Petrenko for taking his place in this performance.

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