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BBC Proms

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Mark Elder

Singer

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Mané Galoyan

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Dmytro Popov

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Rodion Pogossov

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Prom 16: The Hallé performs Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Prom 16: The Hallé performs Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony: Kolokola Rachmaninoff (+1 More)

Public

The Bells

Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, op. 47

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About This Event
Rachmaninov’s The Bells opens this all-Russian programme from Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé. Based on an Edgar Allan Poe poem, this magnificent choral symphony blends gothic drama with mystical intensity, haunted by the tolling of the Dies irae chant. Fear of death also lurks beneath the triumphant fanfares and jollity of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 – the composer’s attempt to satisfy Stalin and the Soviet regime after his career-riskingly provocative opera The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

English

Prom 16: The Hallé performs Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony by Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, From (2023/2023), Conductor Mark Elder, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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