Performance

Venue	Royal Albert Hall
	Also: Elgar Room
Town	Inner London
County	Greater London
From	5th August 2014
To	5th August 2014
When	19:30
Prices	From £9.50. To £46.00.
Royal Albert Hall (V221)
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Date of change: 20 May 14 - T1048426817

Prom 26 - Shostakovich & Berio

Work:: Prom 26 (S351)

Part of the BBC Proms.

Production:: Shostakovich & Berio (T1048426817)

A contemporary classic opens this concert from the European Union Youth Orchestra and Semyon Bychkov. Berio's Sinfonia is a witty, whistle-stop tour through centuries of Western culture - a high-water mark of 1960s experimentalism, with musical references extending from Bach and Brahms to Boulez and The Beatles. The orchestra and eight amplified soloists muse their way through an intricate and joyous web of quotations that frustrate interpretation even as they invite it. Shostakovich's embattled Fourth Symphony asks the same questions as Berio, trying to reconcile the same conflicts and contradictions and finding only Babel and madness in one of the composer's most confrontational works. Finish time approx. 21:50

Company	London Voices
Company	European Union Youth Orchestra (before 1995 European Community YO)
Conductor	Semyon Bychkov

Listing:: L1777313344

Shostakovich & Berio

A contemporary classic opens this concert from the European Union Youth Orchestra and Semyon Bychkov. Berio's Sinfonia is a witty, whistle-stop tour through centuries of Western culture - a high-water mark of 1960s experimentalism, with musical references extending from Bach and Brahms to Boulez and The Beatles. The orchestra and eight amplified soloists muse their way through an intricate and joyous web of quotations that frustrate interpretation even as they invite it. Shostakovich's embattled Fourth Symphony asks the same questions as Berio, trying to reconcile the same conflicts and contradictions and finding only Babel and madness in one of the composer's most confrontational works. Finish time approx. 21:50

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