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BBC.Proms.2025-08-16 Shostakovich Fifth by Heart - Aurora Orchestra, Collon PAL MPG 

Proms 2025: Shostakovich’s Fifth by Heart
Royal Albert Hall, London UK
Saturday, 16 August 2025


Explore a symphony from the inside out. Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra reflect this year’s Shostakovich anniversary with a Prom that takes the audience under the hood of a 20th-century masterpiece and into the mind of the man who made it. Actors join the Aurora’s players to bring to life a symphony born in the shadow of Stalin’s regime – music on the edge of life and death by a composer treading a dangerous line between political obedience and artistic defiance.

Produced in collaboration with the Aurora Orchestra and Frantic Assembly.


Programme

A musical and dramatic exploration of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 (50 mins)

Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5 in D minor (51 mins)
(performed from memory)


Performers

Max Revell, actor/dancer
Polly Frame, actor
Craig Stein, actor
Sarah Twomey, actor

Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon, conductor


Video
Format                                   : MPEG Video
Format version                           : Version 2
Duration                                 : 1 h 44 min
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 4 177 kb/s
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 25.000 FPS
Standard                                 : PAL
Scan type                                : Interlaced
Scan order                               : Top Field First


Audio
Format                                   : AC-3
Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name                          : Dolby Digital
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 384 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel layout                           : L R
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz







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