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Fri 25 Aug 2023

• 18:30

  Prom 52: The Boston Symphony Orchestra play Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony

  Royal Albert Hall

  The Boston Symphony Orchestra returns to the Proms under Music Director Andris Nelsons for the first of two concerts. Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony is preceded by Strauss’s tone-poem Death and Transfiguration and Julia Adolphe’s Makeshift Castle.

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  The Boston Symphony Orchestra returns to the Proms under Music Director Andris Nelsons for the first of two concerts. Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony is preceded by Strauss’s tone-poem Death and Transfiguration and Julia Adolphe’s Makeshift Castle.

  Programme

  • • • Julia Adolphe
      • Makeshift Castle(13 mins)European premiere
    • • Richard Strauss
      • Death and Transfiguration(23 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Sergey Prokofiev
      • Symphony No. 5 in B flat major(46 mins)

  Performers

  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Andris Nelsons

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Julia Adolphe
  • Richard Strauss
  • Sergey Prokofiev

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• 22:15

  Prom 53: Late Night Bach

  Royal Albert Hall

  Counter-tenor Iestyn Davies joins period-instrument group The English Concert for two of Bach’s solo cantatas, ‘Vergnügte Ruh’ and ‘Geist und Seele’, which bookend the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3.

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  Counter-tenor Iestyn Davies joins period-instrument group The English Concert for two of Bach’s solo cantatas, ‘Vergnügte Ruh’ and ‘Geist und Seele’, which bookend the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3.

  Programme

  • • • Johann Sebastian Bach
      • Cantata No. 170, ‘Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust’(24 mins)
      • Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major(10 mins)
      • Cantata No. 35, ‘Geist und Seele wird verwirret’(26 mins)

  Performers

  • Iestyn Davies

    counter-tenor
    counter-tenor
  • The English Concert
  • Kristian Bezuidenhout

    harpsichord/director
    harpsichord/director

  Composers

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

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  Late Night Proms