Performance

Venue	Royal Albert Hall
	Also: Elgar Room
Town	Inner London
County	Greater London
From	4th September 2015
To	4th September 2015
When	19:30
Royal Albert Hall (V221)
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Date of change: 4 Jun 15 - T1777683407

Prom 66 - Beethoven, Schoenberg & Shostakovich

Work:: Prom 66 (S0203084924)

Part of the BBC Proms.

Production:: Beethoven, Schoenberg & Shostakovich (T1777683407)

Mitsuko Uchida makes a welcome return to the Proms for Schoenberg's rarely heard Piano Concerto. It's a work whose 12-tone abstraction is tempered by intriguing autobiographical suggestions - 'Life was so easy', 'Suddenly hatred broke out' - scribbled on the original manuscript. Autobiography is also at the fore in Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony. Composed in 1943, at a particularly dark moment for Russia in the war, the work is a fragile statement of hope that the composer himself summarised as: 'All that is dark and oppressive will disappear; all that is beautiful will triumph.' Finish time approx. 21:45

Performer	Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Company	London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor	Vladimir Jurowski

Listing:: L1608022470

Beethoven, Schoenberg & Shostakovich

Mitsuko Uchida makes a welcome return to the Proms for Schoenberg's rarely heard Piano Concerto. It's a work whose 12-tone abstraction is tempered by intriguing autobiographical suggestions - 'Life was so easy', 'Suddenly hatred broke out' - scribbled on the original manuscript. Autobiography is also at the fore in Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony. Composed in 1943, at a particularly dark moment for Russia in the war, the work is a fragile statement of hope that the composer himself summarised as: 'All that is dark and oppressive will disappear; all that is beautiful will triumph.' Finish time approx. 21:45

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