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Prom 60: Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Live from ±«Óătv Proms: Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra perform Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins them for Bernstein's Age of Anxiety

Live from ±«Óătv Proms: Marin Alsop and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins them in Bernstein's Age of Anxiety
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Bernstein Slava! (A Political Overture)
Bernstein Symphony No 2 'The Age of Anxiety'

c8.40pm
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c. 9.00pm
Shostakovich Symphony No 5 in D minor

Jean‐Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor)

Marin Alsop, a protĂ©gĂ©e of Leonard Bernstein, returns to the Proms with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for a politically charged climax to our bank-holiday Bernstein weekend. The concert culminates in Shostakovich’s ambiguous Fifth Symphony, whose triumphant finale can be heard either as political protest or capitulation to Stalin’s Soviet regime. Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins the orchestra for Bernstein’s ‘The Age of Anxiety’ – a musical quest for faith in a broken, post-war world – and the evening opens with the boisterous Slava!, a ‘political overture’ dedicated to cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.

2 hours, 29 minutes

Music Played

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Slava! (A Political Overture)

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Symphony No 2, 'The Age of Anxiety'

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No 5 in D minor

    Conductor: Marin Alsop. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
  • George Gershwin

    Porgy & Bess: A Symphonic Picture

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Sonata in A for clarinet and piano

    Performer: Annelien Van Wauwe. Performer: Martin Klett.
  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)

    Music Arranger: Mstislav Rostropovich. Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: Markus Becker.
    • Rostropovich Encores.
    • hyperion.
    • 9.

Broadcast

  • Mon 27 Aug 2018 20:00

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