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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 18: Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony
Performance Date29 July 2022
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersColin Currie - percussion
Orchestra or BandBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsAlpesh Chauhan
Set List'Blurr Is the Colour of My True Love’s Eyes', N Lizée,
'String Quintet in F Major – Adagio’, Bruckner, arr. Skrowaczewski
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.5 in D Minor', Shostakovich
Performance NotesLike the slow movements of his towering symphonies, the richly passionate Adagio from Bruckner’s String Quintet – his only mature piece of chamber music – shimmers with a mystical quality.

It finds a counterpart in the deeply poignant slow movement of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony – with which the composer managed to appease the Soviet censors while also expressing the horrors of his time. This contrasts with the more joyful rhythms of Canadian composer Nicole Lizée’s new percussion concerto. Award-winning percussionist Colin Currie is the soloist in the European premiere of a work written specially for him.

BBC co-commission and European premiere of 'Blurr Is the Colour of My True Love’s Eyes', Nicole Lizée.

Technology to 'feel' the Prom was tested at this concert by a handful of invited audience members, using wearable SUBPAC tactile audio systems, ehich amplified the vibrations of the performance. The BBC held the trial to try new technologies ti increase accessibility.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2022/26),
Programme (RAHE/1/2022/43),
Digital Photographs
URLhttps://rah.chorus.thirdlight.com/link/t1md6pgmyv9w-1mapx6
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2022/43BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 18: Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony29 July 2022
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12629BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season69
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/944British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; 1935-; British broadcasting organisation
DS/UK/21267Chauhan; Alpesh; British conductor
DS/UK/5216Currie; Colin (1976-); Scottish solo percussionist
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