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John Storgards conducts

The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, plus Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death, with baritone Kostas Smoriginas, and Gubaidulina’s Fairytale Poem.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs Dmitry Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, plus Modest Mussorgsky’s seminal Songs and Dances of Death, sung by the Lithuanian baritone Kostas Smorginas. This visionary and dramatic song cycle charts a journey from youth to death, itself given a whole new dimension by Shostakovich’s evocative orchestration. To start, we hear a fantastical work from a visionary composer, Sofia Gubaidulina.

Live from the Barbican, London
Presented by Hannah French

Sofia Gubaidulina: Fairytale Poem
Modest Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death (orch. Dmitry Shostakovich)

20:05
Interval

20.25
Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No 5 in D minor

Kostas Smoriginas (baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Storgards (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Thu 24 Mar 202219:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Sofia Gubaidulina

    Fairytale Poem

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Songs and Dances of Death

    Performer: Kostas Smoriginas. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.

  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Trio Sonata No. 5 in F major

    Ensemble: Ensemble Zefiro.
    • ASTREE.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    6 Polonoise (TWV 55:a4)

    Ensemble: Holland Baroque Society.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No.5 in D Minor Op.47

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.

  • Valentin Silvestrov

    Hymn - 2001

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchesta. Conductor: John Storgårds.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E minor, RV.277 'Il favorito'

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Onyx.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto no.5 in F minor, BWV.1056

    Performer: Angela Hewitt. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Director: Richard Tognetti.
    • J.S. Bach: The Keyboard Concertos 2: Hewitt/Australian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10-12.

Broadcast

  • Thu 24 Mar 202219:30
    BBC Radio 3

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