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Live at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: Simon Rattle conducts Chineke! Orchestra in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 and music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Valerie Coleman and George Walker.

Linton Stephens presents, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: The Bamboula
Valerie Coleman: Fanfare for Uncommon Times
George Walker: Pageant and Proclamation

c.8.15pm
During the interval the pianist and music director Allyson Devenish joins Linton Stephens to focus on tonight's orchestra, Chineke!, and to shed light on the music of George Walker.

c.8.35pm
Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor

Chineke! Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)

Experience the ‘electric atmosphere’ of a performance by the Chineke! Orchestra – Europe’s first minority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra. Conducted for the first time by Sir Simon Rattle, 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 George Walker and Valerie Coleman form the concert’s American-accented centre.