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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven – Fidelio, Op.72
Arnold Schoenberg – Piano Concerto, Op.42
~ Interval ~
Dmitry Shostakovich – Symphony no.8 in C minor, Op.65
Performers
Vladimir Jurowski – Conductor
Mitsuko Uchida – piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Programme Note
Mitsuko Uchida makes a welcome return to the Proms for Schoenberg’s rarely heard Piano Concerto. It’s a work whose 12-tone abstraction is tempered by intriguing autobiographical suggestions - ‘Life was so easy’, ‘Suddenly hatred broke out’ - scribbled on the original manuscript. Autobiography is also at the fore in Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony. Composed in 1943, at a particularly dark moment for Russia in the war, the work is a fragile statement of hope that the composer himself summarised as: ‘All that is dark and oppressive will disappear; all that is beautiful will triumph.’