Proms Festival Orchestra conducted by Mark Wigglesworth
Live from the 大象传媒 Proms: the Proms Festival Orchestra, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth, perform Shostakovish and Mahler's Fifth Symphony.
Live from the 大象传媒 Proms: the Proms Festival Orchestra, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth, perform Shostakovish and Mahler's Fifth Symphony.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly
Shostakovich: Festive Overture, Op 96
Mahler: Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor
Proms Festival Orchestra
Mark Wigglesworth, conductor
After a year in which venues fell quiet and orchestras downsized, tonight鈥檚 Prom is a celebration of all an orchestra can do. A specially assembled Proms Festival Orchestra 鈥� made up of leading freelance musicians and conducted by Mark Wigglesworth 鈥� performs two colourful showpieces of the repertoire. Shostakovich鈥檚 Festive Overture bubbles over with a fresh exuberance that reflects the fact that its composer wrote it in two days flat.
Mahler鈥檚 Fifth Symphony spans an expressive chasm from the Funeral March of the first movement to a precariously unhinged Scherzo via the work鈥檚 lingering, lyrical soul: the heartrendingly beautiful Adagietto, written as a musical love letter to his wife Alma.
There will be no interval.
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Music Played
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor Op.87`16
Performer: Alexander Melnikov.- Shostakovich The Preludes & Fugues Alexander Melnikov Piano.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Festive Overture, Op 96
Orchestra: Proms Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth. -
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor
Orchestra: Proms Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth. -
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Johann Sebastian Bach
English Suite No 6 in D minor, BWV. 811
Performer: Mahan Esfahani. -
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite No 5 in C minor, BWV. 1011
Performer: Andrei Ioni牛膬. -
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Edward Elgar
Kindly do not smoke [Smoking Cantata]
Singer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.- Elgar: Falstaff/Songs etc..
- CHANDOS.
- 23.
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