Proms 2018 Prom 60: Marin Alsop & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - BBC Proms

27 Aug 2018, Royal Albert Hall

20:00 Mon 27 Aug 2018 Next Event

Prom 60: Marin Alsop & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

20:00 Mon 27 Aug 2018 Royal Albert Hall

Bernstein-protégée Marin Alsop returns to the Proms with one of the great American symphony orchestras to perform a politically charged programme that includes Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony alongside Bernstein’s own Second Symphony.

Performances & Interviews

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Leonard Bernstein: Slava! (A Political Overture) - Extract (Prom 60)

Slava!', the boisterous ‘political overture’ dedicated to cellist Mstislav Rostropovich

Sep '18BBC Radio 3

Programme

- - Leonard Bernstein
  - Slava! (A Political Overture)(4 mins)
  - Symphony No 2 'The Age of Anxiety'(35 mins)
- - interval
- - Dmitry Shostakovich
  - Symphony No. 5 in D minor(51 mins)

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About This Event

Marin Alsop, a protégée 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.

Broadcast on BBC Four on Friday 31 August

Image: Jean-Yves Thibaudet