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Proms Across the UK: Russian Classics

BBC Proms 2026

Live at the BBC Proms Bristol: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Adam Hickox and cellist Maximilian Hornung in Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No 1 and Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances.

Live at the BBC Proms in Bristol: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Adam Hickox, with cellist Maximilian Hornung, perform 20th century works by Shostakovich, Gubaidulina and Rachmaninov.

Presented by Sarah Walker, live from Bristol Beacon.

Dmitry Shostakovich: Festive Overture
Dmitry Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major

c. 5.40pm
Interval: Writer of modern fairy tales Angela Carter lived in Bristol during the 1960s. Joan Passey and Marie Mulvey-Roberts trace her footsteps and literary influence.

c.6.05pm
Sofia Gubaidulina: Fairy-Tale Poem
Sergey Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

Maximilian Hornung (cello)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Adam Hickox (conductor)

Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances is a summation of his career, a whirling phantasmagoria of rhythm and melody. The Russian spirit also runs through both Shostakovich’s Festive Overture and his sardonically witty Cello Concerto No. 1. Gubaidulina’s Fairy-Tale Poem introduces a whimsical element, a sumptuous musical fantasy about the adventures of a piece of chalk.

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Music Played

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive Overture Op.96

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Adam Hickox.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Concerto No. 1 In E Flat Major Op.107

    Performer: Maximilian Hornung. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Adam Hickox.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Solo Cello Suite no.1 in G Major BWV.1007 (Prelude)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma.
    • Six Evolutions.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Sofia Gubaidulina

    Fairytale Poem

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Adam Hickox.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    3 Symphonic Dances Op.45

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Adam Hickox.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Fratres

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Performer: Charles Owen.

  • Irving Berlin

    Anything you can do (Annie Get Your Gun)

    Singer: Kim Criswell. Singer: Thomas Hampson. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: John McGlinn.
    • EMI.

Broadcast

  • Last Saturday 17:00
    BBC Radio 3