BBC Proms
Season 64 Episode 14 - Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony
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1947
Documentary
From the Royal Albert Hall and introduced by Suzy Klein, the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner perform Shostakovich's iconic Fifth Symphony (A Soviet Artist's Reply to Just Criticism) which found huge favour with the Stalinist authorities in the 1930s and has since become internationally established as one of the great popular masterpieces of the 20th century. The programme also includes the Four Sea Interludes from Britten's opera Peter Grimes, and the world premiere of a new violin concerto by young British composer Huw Watkins, performed by Alina Ibragimova.
Episodes in Season 64
1
Mahler's Symphony No 8 - Symphony of a Thousand
180 min
2
Bryn Terfel Sings Wagner's Meistersinger
300 min
3
Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony
180 min
4
Beethoven Night with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
180 min
5
Miracle on the Mersey
180 min
6
Dvorak's New World Symphony with the CBSO
180 min
7
Mark Elder Conducts Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony
180 min
8
Sondheim's Eightieth Birthday Celebration
180 min
9
Mahler's Third Symphony with the BBC SSO
180 min
10
Paul Lewis Plays Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto
11
World Orchestra for Peace
12
Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto
13
Bach Day
14
Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony
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15
The Philharmonia Play Ravel and Arvo Part
16
The National Youth Orchestra
17
Sibelius's Second Symphony
18
Jamie Cullum Night
19
Rodgers and Hammerstein
20
Pictures at an Exhibition with the BBC NOW
21
Bruckner's Ninth Symphony
22
Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic
23
Doctor Who at the Proms
24
Last Night of the Proms 1910 Style
25
Doctor Who at the Proms Extended
26
Monteverdi's Vespers
27
Last Night of the Proms
28
Chopin and Ravel
100
Episode 100
101
Episode 101
102
Episode 102
103
Episode 103
105
