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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 6 - Nicola Benedetti Plays Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No.1
Performance Date18 July 2017
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:02
Main PerformersNicola Benedetti - violin
Orchestra or BandBBC National Orchestra of Wales
ConductorsThomas Søndergård
Set List'October', Shostakovich,
'Violin Concerto No.1 in A Minor', Shostakovich
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.2 in D Major', Sibelius
ENCORE
'Auld Lang Syne', Burns, arr. P Limonov (N Benedetti)
Performance NotesViolinist Nicola Benedetti joins Thomas Søndergård and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales as they continue their exploration of music by Shostakovich and Sibelius.

Here they pair the latter’s stirring Second Symphony – adopted as a potent symbol of nationalism and resistance by the people of Finland – with Shostakovich’s symphonic poem October, a work whose subversive musical message sees the composer at his most pointedly political.

Shostakovich dedicated his First Violin Concerto to the celebrated violinist David Oistrakh, who praised its solo part as ‘Shakespearean’, and the concerto’s demonic Scherzo gives its soloist plenty of opportunity for virtuosity.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2017/47a),
Programme (RAHE/1/2017/53),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2017/36),
Posters (RAHE/2/2017/27-28)
Ticket Prices£6-£40.00
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/ajTatC0aFxYbB
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2017/53BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 6 - Nicola Benedetti Plays Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No.118 July 2017
RAHE/1/2017/47aBBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Proms Guide14 July-9 September 2017
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work10965BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/6359Sondergard; Thomas (1969-); Danish conductor
DS/UK/1019British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC National Orchestra of Wales; 1935-; Welsh orchestra
DS/UK/963Benedetti; Nicola (20 July 1987); CBE; Scottish violinist
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