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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 65: The Berliner Philharmoniker Plays Schnittke and Shostakovich
Performance Date4 September 2022
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersTabea Zimmermann - viola
Orchestra or BandBerliner Philharmoniker
ConductorsKirill Petrenko
Set List'Viola Concerto’, Schnittke
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.10 in E Minor’, Shostakovich
Performance NotesIn the second of two concerts, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko perform two 20th-century Soviet masterpieces.

Originally composed for Yuri Bashmet (whose name is woven through the work as a musical theme) and performed here by the great German violist Tabea Zimmermann, Schnittke’s Viola Concerto brings out the elegiac quality of its solo instrument.

The concerto’s charged lament sets the scene for Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony – a musical portrait of Stalin that convulses with horror, terror and brutality. But hope breaks through in the symphony’s blazing close.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2022/26),
Programme (RAHE/1/2022/ ),
Digital Photographs
URLhttps://rah.chorus.thirdlight.com/link/dv9o9g8su388-uadgsl
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2022/90BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 65: The Berliner Philharmoniker Plays Schnittke and Shostakovich 4 September 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/22028Berliner Philharmoniker (1882)
DS/UK/22029Petrenko; Kirill (11 February 1972-); Russian-Austrian conductor
DS/UK/19488Zimmermann; Tabea (8 October 1966); German violinist
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