BBC Proms 2019 Prom 15 - Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 01 (320kbps .mp3)
Live at BBC Proms: Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra perform symphonies by Beethoven and Shostakovich.
01. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No 2 in D major
01a. General introduction to BBC Proms 2019 Prom 15
02. Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5
02a. Introduction to Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5
03. Mussorgsky - Overture to Khovanshchina (encore)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
One of Europe’s greatest orchestras, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, returns to the Proms under Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
In the first of two concerts (see also Prom 17) they pair two contrasting symphonies in a programme that moves from sunshine to bitterness. ‘This symphony is smiling throughout,’ wrote Berlioz of Beethoven’s Second Symphony – a work in which seemingly sunny moods conceal personal tragedy and loss.
Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony was written under the cloud of intense scrutiny and artistic repression following the public criticism of the composer at the hands of Stalin.
05. Proms 2019 Prom 15, Proms Plus Talk - Interval: Musicologists Marina Frolova-Walker and Pauline Fairclough discuss Shostakovich and his Symphony No. 5 with presenter Flora Willson.
Also: the source for my previous upload of the 2nd Cadogan Hall Prom was not complete and the final song was truncated. The full version is included here.
07. Barbara Strozzi - Lagrime mie (from Cadogan Hall Prom 02, proper version)
Live from the Royal Albert Hall.
Presented by Ian Skelly.
Broadcast: 30 July 2019
