BBC Proms 2024 - Prom 67 - BBC SO plays Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony (320kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC SO conducted by Tarmo Peltokoski perform Shostakovich's enigmatic Fifth Symphony, plus, with Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Schoenberg's Violin Concerto.

Presented by Kate Molleson, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

01. Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'
01a. Introduction to BBC Proms 2024 - Prom 67
02. Schoenberg - Violin Concerto
02a. Discussion with Patricia Kopatchinskaja
02b. Outro to Schoenberg
03. Kancheli, Giya - Rag-Gidon-Time [encore]
03a. Outro to Kancheli
04. Sánchez-Chiong, Jorge – Crin [encore]
04a. BBC Proms 2024 - Prom 67 - interval
INTERVAL: Kate Molleson is joined by composer and broadcaster Yshani Perinpanayagam to look ahead to highlights in the final week of BBC Proms 2024.
05. Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 in D minor
05a. Outro to Shostakovich
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Tarmo Peltokoski (conductor)

One fast-rising star and one firmly established. The inimitable Patricia Kopatchinskaja returns to the festival for this concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the latest conducting sensation to have emerged from Finland, Tarmo Peltokoski. After soothing Vaughan Williams and stimulating Schoenberg, we hear Shostakovich’s symphonic bid to save his own life in the face of Stalin’s wrath. The composer’s Symphony No. 5 is his most enduring of all, a spiritual battle in which he disguises protest as praise, creating his most bracing and powerful music in the process.