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16 Aug 2022, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2022 Prom 40: Vasily Petrenko conducts the RPO

Prom 40
Prom 40: Vasily Petrenko conducts the RPO
19:30 Tue 16 Aug 2022 Royal Albert Hall
Forged in a time of war and tyranny, Prokofiev said that his Fifth Symphony embodied 鈥榯he greatness of the human spirit鈥�. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director Vasily Petrenko pairs it with American classics by Copland and George Walker.
Forged in a time of war and tyranny, Prokofiev said that his Fifth Symphony embodied 鈥榯he greatness of the human spirit鈥�. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director Vasily Petrenko pairs it with American classics by Copland and George Walker.

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Moscow, 1945: when Sergey Prokofiev stepped up to conduct the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, he was interrupted by the sound of an artillery barrage. Forged in a time of war and tyranny, Prokofiev said that the symphony embodied 鈥榯he greatness of the human spirit鈥�, and for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra鈥檚 Music Director, Vasily Petrenko, it鈥檚 one of the supreme 20th-century masterpieces. Tonight, he sets it in a strikingly original context 鈥� alongside the primary colours and all-American optimism of Copland鈥檚 Appalachian Spring, and the bold, swinging postwar rhythms of George Walker鈥檚 Trombone Concerto. Peter Moore (鈥榤agical鈥� 鈥� The Times) is the soloist in this striking contribution to our season-long focus on instruments that don鈥檛 always get their due.

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