Proms Across the UK: Russian Classics

Live at the BBC Proms in Bristol: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Adam Hickox with cellist Maximilian Hornung, performing 20th-century works by Shostakovich, Gubaidulina and Rachmaninov.

Presented by Sarah Walker, live from Bristol Beacon.

Dmitry Shostakovich: Festive Overture
Dmitry Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major

c. 5.40pm
Interval: The writer of modern fairy tales Angela Carter lived in Bristol during the 1960s. We trace her footsteps and literary influence.

c.6.05pm
Sofia Gubaidulina: Fairy-Tale Poem
Sergey Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

Maximilian Hornung (cello)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Adam Hickox (conductor)

Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances is a summation of his career, a whirling phantasmagoria of rhythm and melody. The Russian spirit also runs through both Shostakovich’s Festive Overture and his sardonically witty Cello Concerto No. 1. Gubaidulina’s Fairy-Tale Poem introduces a whimsical element, a sumptuous musical fantasy about the adventures of a piece of chalk.