Proms 2025 Shostakovich’s Fifth by Heart (16 Aug, 7pm) - BBC Proms

16 Aug 2025, Royal Albert Hall

19:00 Sat 16 Aug 2025 Next Event

Shostakovich’s Fifth by Heart (16 Aug, 7pm)

19:00 Sat 16 Aug 2025 Royal Albert Hall

Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra reflect this year’s Shostakovich anniversary with a Prom that takes the audience under the hood of a 20th-century masterpiece – the Fifth Symphony – and into the mind of the man who made it

Programme

- - interval
- - Dmitry Shostakovich
  - Symphony No. 5 in D minor(59 mins)(performed from memory)

Performers

Max Revell
actor/dancer
actor/dancer
Aurora Orchestra
Polly Frame
actor
actor
Craig Stein
actor
actor
Sarah Twomey
actor
actor
Jane Mitchell
Co-Director and scriptwriter
Co-Director and scriptwriter
James Bonas
Co-Director
Co-Director
Scott Graham for Frantic Assembly
Co-director
Co-director
Sean Hollands for Frantic Assembly
Associate to Scott Graham
Associate to Scott Graham
Zakk Hein
video design
video design
David Bishop
lighting design
lighting design
Nicholas Collon
conductor
conductor

Composers

Dmitry Shostakovich

About This Event

Explore a symphony from the inside out. Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra reflect this year’s Shostakovich anniversary with a Prom that takes the audience under the hood of a 20th-century masterpiece and into the mind of the man who made it. Actors join the Aurora’s players to bring to life a symphony born in the shadow of Stalin’s regime – music on the edge of life and death by a composer treading a dangerous line between political obedience and artistic defiance.

Produced in collaboration with the Aurora Orchestra and Frantic Assembly.

Audio-described by Timna Fibert

British Sign Language-interpreted

Broadcast on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer this season