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Experience the ‘electric atmosphere’ of a performance by the Chineke! Orchestra – Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra. Conducted by Jonathon Heyward, together they perform Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony: over 50 minutes of brutality, violence, despair and terror, followed by two minutes of triumph. A portrait of life – and death – in Stalin’s Russia, it’s a fierce act of musical testimony. The Prom opens with the steady thrum of Coleridge-Taylor’s orchestral dance The Bamboula, while works by US composers Valerie Coleman and James Lee III form the concert’s American-accented centre.

Broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ iPlayer this season

Sir Simon Rattle has regretfully had to withdraw from this concert. We are grateful to Jonathon Heywood for stepping in at short notice