| Main Performers | Jean-Yves Thibaudet - piano |
| Orchestra or Band | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra |
| 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 Notes | Marin 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 Shostakovichs ambiguous Fifth Symphony, whose triumphant finale can be heard either as political protest or capitulation to Stalins Soviet regime.
Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins the orchestra for Bernsteins 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 Material | Proms 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 |