Name: Prom 16: Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4
Start: 2024-07-31T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-07-31T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

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BBC Proms

Conductor

John Storgårds

Orchestra

BBC Philharmonic

Instrumentalist

Lawrence Power

Viola

Prom 16: Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Prom 16: Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4: I cannot love without trembling (Viola Concerto) Miller, Cassandra (+1 More)

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Concert

Oratorio / Orchestral

I cannot love without trembling (Viola Concerto)

Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43

Paul Koneri

Approved

About This Event
As their acclaimed Shostakovich recording series continues, the BBC Philharmonic and Chief Conductor John Storgårds bring one
of the composer’s boldest symphonies to the Proms. The Fourth, a bleak and ferociously powerful work, was withdrawn before its planned premiere for fear of reprisal from Joseph Stalin, who had recently denounced Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Before the interval we hear Canadian composer Cassandra Miller’s new viola concerto, titled I cannot love without trembling and written for leading player Lawrence Power.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Ionstraimíocht

Ensemble