Name: BBC NOW 2017-18 Season Afternoon Concert 2
Start: 2017-10-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2017-10-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Wales Millennium Centre

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BBC Welsh National Orchestra

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Robert Spano

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Ashley Riches

Baritone

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BBC NOW 2017-18 Season Afternoon Concert 2

Cardiff

United Kingdom

Wales Millennium Centre

BBC Hoddinott Hall

Public

Concert

Mazeppa, S.138

Songs and Dances of Death

Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea

October, op. 131

Symphony No. 4, op. 54 ("The Poem of Ecstasy")

Saurav Kumar

Approved

The focus shifts to Russia for the second concert in the tone poems series at BBC Hoddinott Hall; part of R17, a season of events marking the centenary of the 1917 Russian revolution.
Shostakovich’s symphonic poem October was commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the revolution, is at once both patriotic and subversive. By quoting material from works composed whilst condemned by the party, Shostakovich displays both his mastery as a composer and his complicated relationship with the communist party.

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BBC NOW 2017-18 Season Afternoon Concert 2 by Liszt, Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, Scriabin, From (2017/2017), Conductor Robert Spano, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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