BBC Proms 2018 Prom 69, Boston Symphony Orchestra Bernstein and Shostakovich

BBC Proms 2018 Prom 69, Boston Symphony Orchestra Bernstein and Shostakovich (320kbps .mp3)

Live at BBC Proms: Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons in Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony and joined by Baiba Skride in Bernstein's Serenade after Plato's 'Symposium.’

This second concert by Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra sets Bernstein’s intensely lyrical Serenade (after Plato’s ‘Symposium’) for solo violin and orchestra – a work composed for Isaac Stern and performed here by the prize-winning Latvian violinist Baiba Skride – alongside Shostakovich’s uncompromising Fourth Symphony. This dazzling musical manifesto of the composer’s modernist beliefs was withdrawn under duress before its scheduled 1936 premiere and wasn’t heard publicly until 25 years later.


01. Bernstein: Serenade after Plato's 'Symposium’
01i. Introduction to BBC Proms 2018, Prom 69
02. Shostakovich - Symphony No 4 in C minor
02i. Introduction to Shostakovich’s Symphony No 4

Baiba Skride, violin
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor
Broadcast: 3 September 2018