BBC Proms 2017 Prom 58 - Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Louis Langree (320kbps mp3)

Live at BBC Proms: the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra with conductor Louis Langrée perform music by Bernstein, Copland and Tchaikovsky

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley

00. Introductory commentary
01. Bernstein - On the Waterfront - symphonic suite
02. Copland - Lincoln Portrait
02i. Introduction to Copland’s Lincoln Portrait
03. Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 5 in E minor
03i. Introduction to the CSO and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 5
04. Bernstein - Overture to Candide
05. Interval - Proms Extra, Abraham Lincoln
Kathleen Burk, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at UCL, reflects on the character and rhetoric of Abraham Lincoln, the great American president whose 'Gettysburg Address' is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential statements of national purpose and the principles of human equality. She's joined on stage by BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Dr Joanna Cohen from Queen Mary College, London, and presenter Rana Mitter. 

Charles Dance, narrator
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Louis Langrée, conductor

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut with Music Director Louis Langrée, bringing works by two celebrated American composers. Bernstein's symphonic suite drawn from his soundtrack to On the Waterfront is a cinematic journey through the docks and slums of post-war New Jersey, telling the story of one man's heroic fight against corruption and intimidation. In a year in which America has inaugurated a new president, Copland's Lincoln Portrait offers a musical homage to another. Lincoln's greatest speeches are set against a stirring orchestral tone-poem: America in music. The climax of the concert is another passionate statement of musical nationalism: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5.

Broadcast: 27 August 2017