BBC Proms 2017 Prom 71 - Stravinsky, Britten, Prokofiev and Shostakovich (320kbps mp3)

Live at BBC Proms: the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski in Shostakovich's Symphony No 11, plus Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto with soloist Alina Ibragimova.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

01. Introductory commentary
02. Stravinsky - Funeral Song
03. Stravinsky (arr.) - Song of the Volga Boatmen
04. Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No 1 in D
04i. Introduction to Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No 1
05. Eugène Ysaÿe - Sonata No. 5 in G major for solo violin (L'aurore: Lento Assai - 1st movement) (encore)
06. Britten - Russian Funeral
06i. Discussion of Britten and Shostakovitch
07. Shostakovich - Symphony No 11 in G minor (The Year 1905)
08. Interval - The Russian Way of Death
Philip Bullock, Catherine Merridale and Faith Wigzell explore the Russian experience of death across the turbulent 20th century and beyond. Russia's 20th century saw mass death on an unprecedented level through war, civil war, internal repression and disaster onto the violence of the new century. But what remained consistent in belief? Did revolution and Bolshevism transform death and the afterlife or merely tweak it and does the valorisation of the millions killed in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 overshadow other more disturbing memories of sacrifice and loss?

Alina Ibragimova (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)

Alina Ibragimova joins Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a Russian themed programme. The Proms pays tribute to the centenary of the Russian Revolution with Prokofiev's lyrical First Violin Concerto, composed amid the growing turmoil of 1917.

Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11 harks back to another crisis, the failed revolution of 1905; its brooding cinematic landscapes are punctuated by bright flecks of instrumental colour. The concert opens with Stravinsky's youthful Funeral Song, lost for over a century and given its first modern performance only last year.

Broadcast: 6 September 2017