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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 68 - Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich
Performance Date3 September 2017
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time19:35
Main PerformersDenis Matsuev - piano
Orchestra or BandMariinsky Orchestra
ChoirsMariinsky Chorus
ConductorsValery Gergiev
Set List'Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution', Prokofiev,
'Piano Concerto No.3 in E Flat Major', Tchaikovsky
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.5 in D Minor', Shostakovich
ENCORE
'Paganini Variations', Lutoslawski,
'Music Box', Liadov,
'Baba-yaga', Liadov
Performance NotesWho better than Russia’s foremost opera orchestra and chorus to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution?

Along with Artistic Director Valery Gergiev they perform Prokofiev’s epic Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution – a work that captures the violence of the Bolshevik Revolution and the birth of the Soviet Union in bold orchestral textures and rich, folk-infused choral writing.

The cruelty of the Stalinist regime is captured in Shostakovich’s evocative Fifth Symphony, and regular collaborator Denis Matsuev joins the orchestra as soloist in Tchaikovsky’s final work – the single-movement Piano Concerto No. 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2017/47a),
Programme (RAHE/1/2017/113),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2017/36),
Posters (RAHE/2/2017/28, 32)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx?ajTatC0aFxYbB
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2017/113BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 68 - Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich3 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/1213Gergiev; Valery Abisalovich (2 May 1953); Russian conductor and opera company director
DS/UK/20346Matsuev; Denis (1975-); Russian pianist
DS/UK/21625Mariinsky Orchestra; 1783; Russian orchestra
DS/UK/21626The Mariinsky Chorus; fl 1850s-; Russian choir
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