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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season - Prom 66 - London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski
Performance Date4 September 2015
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:33
Main PerformersMitsuko Uchida - violin
Orchestra or BandLondon Philharmonic Orchestra
ConductorsVladimir Jurowski
Set List'Fidelio - Overture', Beethoven,
'Piano Concerto', Schoenberg
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.8 in C Minor', Shostakovich
ENCORE
'Op.19, No.2' 6 Small Piano Pieces, Schoenberg
Performance NotesMitsuko Uchida makes a welcome return to the Proms for Schoenberg’s rarely heard Piano Concerto. It’s a work whose 12-tone abstraction is tempered by intriguing autobiographical suggestions – ‘Life was so easy’, ‘Suddenly hatred broke out’ – scribbled on the original manuscript. Autobiography is also at the fore in Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony. Composed in 1943, at a particularly dark moment for Russia in the war, the work is a fragile statement of hope that the composer himself summarised as: ‘All that is dark and oppressive will disappear; all that is beautiful will triumph.’

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.

Dame Mitsuko Uchida signed CD's and programmes after the performance in Door 12.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2015/60),
Programme (RAHE/1/2015/124),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2015/37),
Digital Photographs
Ticket Prices£5 - £46.00
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2015/124BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season - Prom 664 September 2015
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work10256BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/6725Uchida; Dame; Mitsuko (20 December 1948); DBE; Japanese-born British classical pianist
DS/UK/1129London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO); 1932-; British orchestra
DS/UK/1148Jurowski; Vladimir Mikhailovich (1972-); Russian conductor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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