BBC Proms Season 2025 Episode 10 - Aurora Orchestra Plays Shostakovich's Fifth

Airdate: 2025-Aug-17

Episode summary:

Linton Stephens presents a Prom from the Royal Albert Hall in which Nicholas Collon conducts the orchestra in a performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No 5 from memory. Actors join the musicians to bring to life a symphony born in the shadow of Stalin's regime - music on the edge of life and death by a composer treading a dangerous line between political obedience and artistic defiance.

About BBC Proms series:

BBC Proms is the world's greatest classical music festival.