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with Penny Gore - and a second chance to hear yesterday evening's Prom when the 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales and Thomas S酶nderg氓rd played Russian masterpeices by Prokofiev and Shostakovich plus a UK premiere by Colin Matthews.
Presented by Katie Derham at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Colin Matthews: Turning Point (UK premiere)

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor

at approx 2.55pm
Shostakovich Symphony No. 11, 'The Year 1905'

Daniel Hope (violin)
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas S酶nderg氓rd (conductor)

The 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales return to the 大象传媒 Proms with Principal Conductor Thomas S酶nderg氓rd to give the UK premiere of Colin Matthews's mercurial Turning Point. The overall impression is, as Matthews puts it "of complex momentum countered by expressive simplicity".

British violinist Daniel Hope has toured the world as a virtuoso soloist for many years, acclaimed by critics as adventurous and brilliant, of probing intellect and commanding style. Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto was a landmark in the composer's search for a new simplicity and a directness of expression. The flinty beauty of the concerto stands in sharp contrast to the granite heft of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11, 'The Year 1905' written four years after the death of Joseph Stalin and studded through with revolutionary songs.

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