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Proms 2025

Revolutionary Music

As the Proms marks 100 years since the Russian Revolution, devel deeper into how subversive, progressive and revolutionary ideals were reflected in the music of 20th-century Russia.
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Revolutionary Music Calendar

  • Wed 26 Jul 2017

    • 19:30
      Royal Albert Hall

      Drama is at the heart of a Prom that moves from the psychological drama of Liszt’s Hamlet to the vivid portraits of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Plus Steven Osborne joins Ilan Volkov and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ SSO for a Julian Anderson world premiere.

      Drama is at the heart of a Prom that moves from the psychological drama of Liszt’s Hamlet to the vivid portraits of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Plus Steven Osborne joins Ilan Volkov and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ SSO for a Julian Anderson world premiere.

      Programme

          • Hamlet(10 mins)
          • The Imaginary Museum(25 mins)´óÏó´«Ã½ co-commission with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra: world premiere
            • interval
            • From the Cradle to the Grave(14 mins)
            • Pictures at an Exhibition (orch Maurice Ravel)(34 mins)
        Also part of
        Proms 2017
        Prom 16: Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition