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Friday - Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony

Alpesh Chauhan's recent Prom with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, including Shostakovich's 5th Symphony.

Penny Gore rounds off a week of Afternoon Concert by introducing another chance to hear Alpesh Chauhan's recent Prom with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with music for percussion and orchestra by Canadian composer Nicole Lizée, and culminating in Shostakovich's 5th Symphony. Plus today's Proms Artist Choice.

Nicole Lizée: Blurr is the Colour of My True Love’s Eyes (BBC co-commission: European premiere)
Bruckner arr. Skrowaczewski: String Quintet in F major – Adagio

INTERVAL

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor

Colin Currie, percussion
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

2 hours, 32 minutes

Last on

Fri 5 Aug 2022 14:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Steve Reich

    Quartet: 3rd movement: Fast

    Ensemble: Colin Currie Group.
    • Pulse/Quartet.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 4.

  • Arthur Bliss

    Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; II. Vivo

    Performer: Lydia Mordkovitch. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Nicole Lizée

    Blurr is the Colour of My True Love's Eyes

    Performer: Colin Currie. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.

  • Anton Bruckner

    String Quartet in F Major

    Performer: Colin Currie. Music Arranger: Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No. 5 in B flat; 2nd movement, Adagio

    Conductor: Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. Orchestra: Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Stanislaw Skrowaczewski: 90th Birthday Collection.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 702.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No. 5 in D minor

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Fruhlingslied (Song without words in A major, Op 62 No 6)

    Performer: Ronald Brautigam.
    • Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte, Books 5-8.
    • BIS.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Fri 5 Aug 2022 14:00
    BBC Radio 3