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Proms 2018 Prom 32: Inside Shostakovich

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Prom 32: Inside Shostakovich
22:15 Mon 6 Aug 2018 Royal Albert Hall
Presenter Tom Service, Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra take their audience inside Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony – taking it apart to reveal its intricate construction, before putting it back together again in a complete performance from memory.
Presenter Tom Service, Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra take their audience inside Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony – taking it apart to reveal its intricate construction, before putting it back together again in a complete performance from memory.

Programme

      • Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major(20 mins)
      • Symphony No 9 in E flat major(20 mins)Tom Service and Nicholas Collon present Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9, with live excerpts

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The Aurora Orchestra’s Proms visits are always a highlight of the season – less a concert than a musical event. This year Nicholas Collon and the orchestra tackle their boldest challenge yet – performing Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony from memory.

This concert presentation sees Radio 3 broadcaster Tom Service and conductor Nicholas Collon unpack this carefully constructed work, with its fleet-footed melodies and dance-filled rhythms, before the musicians put it back together again in a complete performance.

This is a rare opportunity to experience a great symphony – one that Leonard Bernstein featured in one of his famous Young People’s Concerts – from the inside out.

There will be no interval

Image: Nicholas Collon © Chris Christodoulou/BBC

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