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Live at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, Ryan Bancroft, Benjamin Grosvenor, Kostas Smoriginas & Synergy Vocals perform works by Gubaidulina & Ravel.

Presented by Alexandra Humphreys, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Gubaidulina: Revue Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band (UK premiere)
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major

c.8.10pm
Interval

c.8.30pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No 13 in B flat minor, Op 113 ‘Babi Yar’

A jazz band and a symphony orchestra meet in the zany groovings of Sofia Gubaidulina’s Revue Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band – part of a concert that brings these two sound- worlds together. Jazz is represented by the syncopated brilliance of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major, performed by Proms favourite and former ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor. Shostakovich supplies the symphony – the snarling, sometimes shockingly tender ‘Babi Yar’, bearing witness to the horrors of a Nazi massacre of Jews in Soviet Ukraine.