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Proms 2024

Revolutionary Music

As the Proms marks 100 years since the Russian Revolution, devel deeper into how subversive, progressive and revolutionary ideals were reflected in the music of 20th-century Russia.
Calendar

Revolutionary Music Calendar

  • Mon 14 Aug 2017

    • 13:00
      Cadogan Hall

      Born in the shadow of one of Russia’s darkest hours, Shostakovich carried the ghosts of the revolution with him. They are given voice in a Prom that brings together solo-piano Preludes and Fugues with choral settings of poems revolutionary poets.

      Born in the shadow of one of Russia’s darkest hours, Shostakovich carried the ghosts of the revolution with him. They are given voice in a Prom that brings together solo-piano Preludes and Fugues with choral settings of poems revolutionary poets.

      Programme

          • Ten Poems on Texts by Revolutionary Poets – excerpts(21 mins)excerpts
          • Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major, Op. 87
          • Prelude and Fugue No. 2 in A minor, Op. 87
          • Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in G major, Op. 87
          • Prelude and Fugue No. 4 in E minor, Op. 87
          • Prelude and Fugue No. 7 in A major, Op. 87
          • Prelude and Fugue No. 8 in F-sharp minor, Op. 87

      Performers

      Proms at ... Cadogan Hall, PCM 5