Prom 26: Shostakovich & Berio

5 Aug 2014, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Tue 5 Aug 2014 Next Event

Proms 2014 Prom 26: Shostakovich & Berio

19:30 Tue 5 Aug 2014 Royal Albert Hall

This concert from the European Union Youth Orchestra opens with Berio鈥檚 20th-century classic, Sinfonia 鈥� a witty, whistle-stop tour through centuries of Western culture, from Bach to The Beatles. Shostakovich鈥檚 embattled Fourth Symphony attempts to reconcile the same conflicts and contradictions as Berio, but finds only Babel and madness, in one of the composer鈥檚 most confrontational works.

Programme

- - Luciano Berio
  - Sinfonia(33 mins)
- - interval
- - Dmitry Shostakovich
  - Symphony No. 4 in C minor(64 mins)

Performers

London Voices
European Union Youth Orchestra (before 1995 European Community YO)
Vasily Petrenko
conductor
conductor

Composers

About this event

A contemporary classic opens this concert from the European Union Youth Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko. Berio鈥檚 Sinfonia is a witty, whistle-stop tour through centuries of Western culture 鈥� 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 most confrontational works.

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

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