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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season - Prom 26 - Shostakovich and Berio
Performance Date5 August 2014
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:30
Orchestra or BandEuropean Union Youth Orchestra
ChoirsLondon Voices
ConductorsSemyon Bychkov
Set List'Sinfonia', Berio
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.4 in C Minor', Shostakovich
Performance NotesA contemporary classic opens this concert from the European Union Youth Orchestra and Semyon Bychkov.

Berio's Sinfonia is a witty, whistle-stop tour through centuries of Western culture – a high-water mark of 1960s experimentalism, with musical references extending from Bach and Brahms to Boulez and The Beatles.

The orchestra and eight amplified soloists muse their way through an intricate and joyous web of quotations that frustrate interpretation even as they invite it.

Shostakovich's embattled Fourth Symphony asks the same questions as Berio, trying to reconcile the same conflicts and contradictions and finding only Babel and madness in one of the composer's most confrontational works.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53),
Programme (RAHE/1/2014/78),
Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41),
Proms Mini-Guide
Ticket Prices£5.00-£46.00
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/asZa92axd0dX
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2014/78BBC Proms 2014 - Prom 265 August 2014
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work9894BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
DS/UK/11048European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO); 1976-; European youth orchestra
DS/UK/10568London Voices; 1973-; English choral ensemble
DS/UK/983Bychkov; Semyon (30 November 1952); Soviet conductor
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