BBC Proms 2018 Prom 60, Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (320kbps .mp3)

BBC Proms 2018 Prom 60, Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (320kbps .mp3)

Live from BBC Proms: Marin Alsop and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins them in Bernstein's Age of Anxiety

Marin Alsop, a protégée of Leonard Bernstein, returns to the Proms with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for a politically charged climax to our bank-holiday Bernstein weekend. The concert culminates in Shostakovich’s ambiguous Fifth Symphony, whose triumphant finale can be heard either as political protest or capitulation to Stalin’s Soviet regime. Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins the orchestra for Bernstein’s ‘The Age of Anxiety’ – a musical quest for faith in a broken, post-war world – and the evening opens with the boisterous Slava!, a ‘political overture’ dedicated to cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.


Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

01. Bernstein - Slava! (A Political Overture)
01i. Introduction to BBC Proms 2018 Prom 60
02. Bernstein - Symphony No 2 'The Age of Anxiety'
02i. Introduction to Bernstein’s Symphony No 2
03. Schubert - Waltz in G (encore) (probably; this was an encore and the announcer was not wholly sure what the piece was)
04. Shostakovich - Symphony No 5 in D minor
04i. Introduction to Shostakovich’s Symphony No 5
05. Shostakovich - General Dance and Apotheosis (from ‘The Bolt’ ballet suite) (encore)
06. Gershwin - Dances from Porgy & Bess - A Symphonic Picture (encore)

Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor)


07. BBC Proms 2018 Prom 60, Interval, Proms Plus
Poet, playwright and librettist Glyn Maxwell has retraced Auden's travels in Iceland. He joins Polly Clark, whose recent novel Larchfield explored Auden's early years teaching in Scotland, to discuss Auden's poetry and his influence on other artists. Hosted by Matthew Sweet.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Broadcast: 27 August 2018