Shostakovich's Tenth

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Cristian Măcelaru perform Shostakovich's masterly Symphony No.10, plus Édith Canat de Chizy's Skyline.

Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Édith Canat de Chizy: Skyline (Concerto for three percussionists, timpani and orchestra) (BBC co-commission: UK premiere)

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Interval Níall McLaughlin was awarded the 2026 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture for a career which has included a prize winning library and a striking chapel. He discusses his musical interests and the inspirations which can feed into an architectural design.

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Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor(55 mins)

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Cristian Măcelaru (Conductor)

Cristian Măcelaru, whose own childhood was spent in communist Romania, conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich’s devastatingly powerful Symphony No. 10. Premiered after Stalin’s death in 1953, it’s a work whose fierce rage, violence and grief tell a terrifying story of life in the dictator’s Russia – a painfully personal history, and one shot through with the composer’s own musical signature: DSCH. The concert opens with the UK premiere of Édith Canat de Chizy’s intricately textured Skyline for three percussionists, timpani and orchestra – a musical vision of the cosmos, from void to teeming, multiplying musical life.