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Haitink and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Murray Perahia joins Bernard Haitink and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for a contrasting programme of Mozart and Shostakovich from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms 2008.

In 2020, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.

Murray Perahia and Bernard Haitink have a musical rapport that has given us countless magnificent performances. This performance from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms in 2008 saw Perahia return to the Proms, following a gap of 20 years, to perform one of Mozart's greatest piano concertos.

It was while writing his Fourth Symphony that Shostakovich was denounced in a newspaper article entitled ‘Muddle Instead of Music’. He continued composing the work in private, but it had to wait 25 years – beyond the death of Stalin – before it was first heard in public, in 1961.

Presented by Ian Skelly

7.30pm
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491

c.8.10pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 in C minor

Murray Perahia (piano)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)

(From ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms 2008, 9 September)

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Tue 28 Jul 2020 19:30

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No. 4 in C minor

    Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major H.7e.1

    Performer: HÃ¥kan Hardenberger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Hardenberger/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 10.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Sta nell'Ircana (Alcina)

    Singer: Alice Coote. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.
    • Hyperion.

Broadcast

  • Tue 28 Jul 2020 19:30

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