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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 67: BBC Symphony Orchestra play Shostakovich 5
Performance Date9 September 2024
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersPatricia Kopatchinskaja - violin
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsTarmo Peltokoski
Set ListVaughan Williams Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’ 4’
Schoenberg Violin Concerto 32’
Interval
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D minor 44’
Performance NotesOne fast-rising star and one firmly established. The inimitable Patricia Kopatchinskaja returns to the festival for this concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the latest conducting sensation to have emerged from Finland, Tarmo Peltokoski.

After soothing Vaughan Williams and stimulating Schoenberg, we hear Shostakovich’s symphonic bid to save his own life in the face of Stalin’s wrath. The composer’s Symphony No. 5 is his most enduring of all, a spiritual battle in which he disguises protest as praise, creating his most bracing and powerful music in the process.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3
Related Archival MaterialProm Guide (RAHE/1/2024),
Programme (RAHE/1/2024)
Ticket Prices£10-150, promming tickets £8
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2024/100BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 67: BBC Symphony Orchestra play Shostakovich 59 September 2024
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Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work13252BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season73
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