Name: Prom 51: Glinka, Howard & Shostakovich
Start: 2012-08-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2012-08-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

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BBC Proms

Conductor

Andris Nelsons

Orchestra

CBSO

Prom 51: Glinka, Howard & Shostakovich

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Public

Concert

Oratorio / Orchestral

Ruslan and Lyudmila

Calculus Of The Nervous System

Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60

Paul Koneri

Approved

About this event
Tonight’s curtain-raiser is a scintillating overture which kick-started a new era in Russian music. In Calculus of the Nervous System, which has already taken Vienna by storm, Emily Howard draws upon her interest in the inner world of Ada Lovelace, pioneering mathematician daughter of Lord Byron, considered a prophet of the computer age.

Shostakovich completed his titanic Seventh Symphony as German armies advanced deep into the motherland. More recently it has also been seen as one of his exercises in tactful subversion, depicting a Leningrad whose intellectual life Stalin had already shattered.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble