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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Season - Prom 16: The Halle Performs Shostakovich's 'Fifth Symphony'
Performance Date26 July 2023
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersMané Galoyan,
Dmytro Popov,
Rodion Pogossov - vocals
Orchestra or BandHalle
ChoirsBBC Symphony Chorus,
Halle Choir
ConductorsSir Mark Elder
Set ListThe Bells', Rachmaninov
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.5 in D Minor', Shostakovich
Performance NotesRachmaninov’s The Bells opens this all-Russian programme from Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé. Based on an Edgar Allan Poe poem, this magnificent choral symphony blends gothic drama with mystical intensity, haunted by the tolling of the Dies irae chant.

Fear of death also lurks beneath the triumphant fanfares and jollity of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 – the composer’s attempt to satisfy Stalin and the Soviet regime after his career-riskingly provocative opera The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

The Duty Manager reported: "A truly wonderful Prom with a very enthusiastic audience and by all accounts a world first as bells were included in the performance tonight and not even Rachmaninov himself ever heard the piece performed with bells. Sir Mark Elder the maestro and stalwart of the proms also kept everyone on their toes but conducted magnificently."
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2023/ 31),
Programme (RAHE/1/2023/ 46),
Digital Photographs
Ticket Prices£8-£
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2023/46BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Season - Prom 16: The Halle Performs Shostakovich's 'Fifth Symphony'26 July 2023
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12976BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eightth Season71
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1013Halle; Halle Choir; c1858-; English choir
DS/UK/1000Halle; 1858-; English symphony orchestra
DS/UK/919Elder; Sir; Mark Philip (1947-); CBE; British conductor
DS/UK/20685Popov; Dmytrov (fl 2007-); Ukranian tenor
DS/UK/894British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Chorus; 1928-; British amateur chorus
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