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Prom 40: Vasily Petrenko conducts the RPO

Live at the Proms: Prom 40: Vasily Petrenko conducts Prokofiev's 5th Symphony, alongside works by Copland and George Walker.

Live at the Proms: Prom 40: Vasily Petrenko conducts Prokofiev's 5th Symphony, alongside works by Copland and George Walker.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Copland: Appalachian Spring – suite
George Walker: Trombone Concerto

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INTERVAL: In the ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s centenary year, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough takes a closer look at another cultural landmark from 1922 - Robert Flaherty’s ground-breaking documentary film Nanook of the North. Film historian Roswitha Skare and journalist Luke Dormehl explain why this study of life in the Arctic has proved to be both controversial and influential.

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Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major

Peter Moore, trombone
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko, conductor

Moscow, 1945: when Sergey Prokofiev stepped up to conduct the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, he was interrupted by the sound of an artillery barrage. Forged in a time of war and tyranny, Prokofiev said that the symphony embodied ‘the greatness of the human spirit’, and for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s Music Director, Vasily Petrenko, it’s one of the supreme 20th-century masterpieces. Tonight, he sets it in a strikingly original context – alongside the primary colours and all-American optimism of Copland’s Appalachian Spring, and the bold, swinging postwar rhythms of George Walker’s Trombone Concerto. Peter Moore (‘magical’ – The Times) is the soloist in this striking contribution to our season-long focus on instruments that don’t always get their due.

2 hours, 29 minutes

Music Played

  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian Spring

    Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
  • George Walker

    Trombone Concerto

    Performer: Peter Moore. Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
  • David Uber

    Clef Study No 18 "Blues Etude"

    Performer: Peter Moore.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No 5 in Bb Major

    Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
  • Samuel Barber

    Dover beach Op.3 for voice and string quartet

    Singer: Benjamin Appl. Ensemble: Armida Quartett.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Pastoral Aria (He is born...) from Non so qual più

    Singer: Elizabeth Watts. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Laurence Cummings.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Aaron Copland

    Laurie's Song (The Tender Land)

    Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Dawn Upshaw: The World So Wide.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Tue 16 Aug 2022 19:30

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