Name: Proms 2014 Prom 26: Shostakovich & Berio
Start: 2014-08-05T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2014-08-05T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

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BBC Proms

Conductor

Vasily Petrenko

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London Voices

Orchestra

European Union Youth Orchestra

Proms 2014 Prom 26: Shostakovich & Berio

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Proms 2014 Prom 26: Shostakovich & Berio: Sinfonia Berio (+1 More)

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Concert

Oratorio / Orchestral

Symphony

Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43

Arshiya Banu

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This concert from the European Union Youth Orchestra opens with Berio’s 20th-century classic, Sinfonia – a witty, whistle-stop tour through centuries of Western culture, from Bach to The Beatles. Shostakovich’s embattled Fourth Symphony attempts to reconcile the same conflicts and contradictions as Berio, but finds only Babel and madness, in one of the composer’s most confrontational works.

A contemporary classic opens this concert from the European Union Youth Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko. Berio’s Sinfonia is a witty, whistle-stop tour through centuries of Western culture – a high-water mark of 1960s experimentalism, with musical references extending from Bach and Brahms to Boulez and The Beatles. The orchestra and eight amplified soloists muse their way through an intricate and joyous web of quotations that frustrate interpretation even as they invite it.

Shostakovich’s embattled Fourth Symphony asks the same questions as Berio, trying to reconcile the same conflicts and contradictions and finding only Babel and madness in one of the composer’s most confrontational works.

English

Proms 2014 Prom 26: Shostakovich & Berio by Berio, Shostakovich, Frá (2014/2014), Hljómsveitarstjóri Vasily Petrenko, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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Hljómsveit

Dagskrá, Um & Yfirlit

Ljósmyndir

Frekari lestur

Sýningardagsetningar og sýningarstaðir

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