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WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER
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- 5.30pm PROMS MUSIC INTRO (RCM)
- 7.30pm PROM 65: BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER
5.30pm - 6.30pm: Music Intro Find out more about Brahms and Shostakovich, plus a look at the Berliner Philharmoniker's education programme and a showcase of a recent project on Brahms.
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Prom 65: Berliner Philharmoniker
- Date Wednesday 3 September 2008
- Time 7.30pm - c9.40pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £10-£54 price band C or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Recorded for broadcast on BBC Four on 7 September. Live on BBC Radio 3, and available as audio on demand for the following week.
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Sir Simon Rattle and his Berlin orchestra open their second Prom of the season with a work central to the ensemble's repertoire: Brahms's Symphony No. 3, the mellowest of his four symphonies, inspired by a visit to the Rhine in 1883.
Seventy years later came Shostakovich's powerful Tenth Symphony, written just months after the death of Stalin. Its long opening movement seems to sum up the suffering of Shostakovich and his compatriots under Stalin's regime, and it's hard not to hear a note of triumph when Shostakovich's motto signature DSCH appears in the finale.
- Brahms Symphony No.3 (35 mins)
- Interval
- Shostakovich Symphony No.10 (54 mins)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
BBC Radio 3
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