Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 60 - Marin Alsop and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Performance Date27 August 2018
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time20:02
Main PerformersJean-Yves Thibaudet - piano
Orchestra or BandBaltimore Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsMarin Alsop
Set List'Slava! (A Political Overture)’, L Bernstein,
'Symphony No.2, ‘The Age of Anxiety'’, L Bernstein,
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.5 in D Minor’, Shostakovich
ENCORE
Gershwin
Performance NotesMarin Alsop, a protégée of Leonard Bernstein, returns to the Proms with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for a politically charged climax to our bank-holiday Bernstein weekend.

The concert culminates in Shostakovich’s ambiguous Fifth Symphony, whose triumphant finale can be heard either as political protest or capitulation to Stalin’s Soviet regime.

Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins the orchestra for Bernstein’s ‘The Age of Anxiety’ – a musical quest for faith in a broken, post-war world – and the evening opens with the boisterous Slava!, a ‘political overture’ dedicated to cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.

Broadcast on BBC Four on Friday 31 August 2018.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2018/51),
Programme (RAHE/1/2018/107),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2018/38),
Digital Photographs,
Posters (RAHE/2/2018/26, 41)
Ticket Prices£7.50-£100, £6 standing arena and gallery
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2018/51BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Season - Proms Guide13 July-8 September 2018
RAHE/1/2018/107BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 60 - Marin Alsop and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra27 August 2018
RAHE/6/2018/38BBC Proms Mini-Guide13 July-8 September 2018
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work11341BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty Fourth Season75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/5693Thibaudet; Jean-Yves (1961-); French pianist
DS/UK/22023Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (1916)
DS/UK/1135Alsop; Marin (16 October 1956); American conductor and violinist
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