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Proms Festival Orchestra conducted by Mark Wigglesworth

±«Óãtv Proms 2021

Live from the ±«Óãtv Proms: the Proms Festival Orchestra, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth, perform Shostakovish and Mahler's Fifth Symphony.

Live from the ±«Óãtv Proms: the Proms Festival Orchestra, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth, perform Shostakovish and Mahler's Fifth Symphony.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly

Shostakovich: Festive Overture, Op 96
Mahler: Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor

Proms Festival Orchestra
Mark Wigglesworth, conductor

After a year in which venues fell quiet and orchestras downsized, tonight’s Prom is a celebration of all an orchestra can do. A specially assembled Proms Festival Orchestra – made up of leading freelance musicians and conducted by Mark Wigglesworth – performs two colourful showpieces of the repertoire. Shostakovich’s Festive Overture bubbles over with a fresh exuberance that reflects the fact that its composer wrote it in two days flat.

Mahler’s Fifth Symphony spans an expressive chasm from the Funeral March of the first movement to a precariously unhinged Scherzo via the work’s lingering, lyrical soul: the heartrendingly beautiful Adagietto, written as a musical love letter to his wife Alma.

There will be no interval.

2 hours, 29 minutes

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Wed 8 Sep 2021 19:30
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Music Played

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor Op.87`16

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Shostakovich The Preludes & Fugues Alexander Melnikov Piano.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 7.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive Overture, Op 96

    Orchestra: Proms Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor

    Orchestra: Proms Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    English Suite No 6 in D minor, BWV. 811

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No 5 in C minor, BWV. 1011

    Performer: Andrei Ioniţă.

  • Edward Elgar

    Kindly do not smoke [Smoking Cantata]

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: ±«Óãtv Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Elgar: Falstaff/Songs etc..
    • CHANDOS.
    • 23.

Broadcast

  • Wed 8 Sep 2021 19:30
    ±«Óãtv Radio 3

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