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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 22: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony from Memory
Performance Date2 August 2022
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersPatricia Kopatchinskaja - violin
Orchestra or BandAurora Orchestra
ConductorsNicholas Collon
Set List'O-Mega’, Xenakis,
'Violin Concerto No.1 in A Minor’, Shostakovich
INTERVAL
An introduction to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (Tom Service, Nicholas Collon),
'Symphony No.5 in C Minor’, Beethoven
Performance NotesBeethoven’s Fifth Symphony has been played well over 100 times at the Proms – but you’ve never heard it like this.

Conductor Nicholas Collon and presenter Tom Service are your guides, taking this much-loved work apart in front of your ears before the Aurora Orchestra performs the entire symphony from memory.

In the first half the orchestra is joined by maverick violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, whose ‘joyous’ and ‘compelling’ performance of Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto was a highlight last year. She performs Shostakovich’s mercurial First Violin Concerto, whose demanding writing climaxes in a boisterous folk celebration. The concert opens with centenary composer Xenakis’s final work, the solemn O-Mega.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2022/26),
Programme (RAHE/1/2022/48),
Digital Photographs
URLhttps://rah.chorus.thirdlight.com/link/dsgd77oimx64-msr00n
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2022/48BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 22: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony from Memory2 August 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/1058Aurora Orchestra; 2005-; British chamber orchestra
DS/UK/1059Collon; Nicholas (fl 2012); British conductor
DS/UK/23509Kopatchinskaja; Patricia (March 1977); Moldovan Austrian Swiss violinist
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