Prom 40

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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881)	Night on the Bare Mountain (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975)	Violin Concerto no. 1 in A minor, Op.77 or Op.99
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915)	Rêverie, Op.24
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953)	Symphony no. 3 in C minor, Op.44

Performers

Julia Fischer	Violin
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski	Conductor

Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO
perform a dynamic, all-Russian
programme. Julia Fischer returns
to play Shostakovich’s longsuppressed
Violin Concerto,
following her triumphant debut
here two years ago – and she
returns again even more swiftly
to appear in tomorrow’s Proms
Chamber Music recital. Prokofiev’s impassioned,
sometimes spine-chilling Third Symphony originated in
music from his opera The Fiery Angel. Musorgsky’s feast
of ghosts and ghouls appears in Rimsky-Korsakov’s
spectacular rearrangement, and we continue our
Scriabin focus with the composer’s fleeting dream-like
rhapsody.

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Prom 40: The London Philharmonic Orchestra annihilate the audience by way of Prokofiev

Simon Birch, 18th August

Prom number 40 saw a Russian conductor at the helm of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, playing a selection of music from some of the great Russian composers of the last two centuries, all with very distinct styles. Rimsky Korsakov’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Night on a Bare Mountain began the concert and conjured up all the fantastical imagery the name promises.

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