Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 69 - Boston Symphont Orchestra, Bernstein and Shostakovich
Performance Date3 September 2018
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time19:32
Main PerformersBaiba Skride - violin
Orchestra or BandBoston Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsAndris Nelsons
Set List'Serenade (after Plato’s ‘Symposium’)’, L Bernstein
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.4 in C Minor’, Shostakovich
Performance NotesThis second concert by Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra sets Bernstein’s intensely lyrical Serenade (after Plato’s ‘Symposium’) for solo violin and orchestra – a work composed for Isaac Stern and performed here by the prize-winning Latvian violinist Baiba Skride – alongside Shostakovich’s uncompromising Fourth Symphony. This dazzling musical manifesto of the composer’s modernist beliefs was withdrawn under duress before its scheduled 1936 premiere and wasn’t heard publicly until 25 years later.

Post-show reception was held in the Prince of Wales Room for the Latvian Embassy until 23:30.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2018/51),
Programme (RAHE/1/2018/117),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2018/38),
Digital Photographs,
Posters (RAHE/2/2018/26, 41)
Ticket Prices£7.50-£100, £6 standing arena and gallery
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2018/51BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Season - Proms Guide13 July-8 September 2018
RAHE/1/2018/117BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 69 - Boston Symphont Orchestra, Bernstein and Shostakovich3 September 2018
RAHE/6/2018/38BBC Proms Mini-Guide13 July-8 September 2018
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work11341BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty Fourth Season75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/7393Skride; Baiba (1981-); Latvian classical violinist
DS/UK/7653Boston Symphony Orchestra; 1881-; American orchestra
DS/UK/1182Nelsons; Andris (1978-); Latvian Conductor
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