Aurora Orchestra Plays Shostakovich's Fifth
Aurora Orchestra Plays Shostakovich's Fifth
Linton Stephens presents a Prom from the Royal Albert Hall in which Nicholas Collon conducts the orchestra in a performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No 5 from memory. Actors join the musicians to bring to life a symphony born in the shadow of Stalin's regime - music on the edge of life and death by a composer treading a dangerous line between political obedience and artistic defiance
Aurora Orchestra Plays Shostakovich's Fifth airs on BBC Four HD at 8:00 PM, Sunday 17 August. (Subtitles, new.)
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Music ➝ Ballet ➝ Dance
Classical
Max Revell
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Polly Frame
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Craig Stein
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