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Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms: The 91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales & conductor Jaime Martín perform Bacewicz and Prokofiev. Nemanja Radulović is soloist in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.

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

6.30pm
Bacewicz: Overture
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35

c.7.20pm
INTERVAL: Shakespeare's "star-crossed" lovers are the focus of our interval conversation as Martin Handley’s guest for the interval is Sophie Duncan, a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and author of a book called Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare’s First Tragic Heroine. You can hear from Sophie in a Free Thinking episode called Shakespeare's Women available on 91Èȱ¬ Sounds.

c.7.40pm
Prokofiev: A Selection of Movements from Romeo and Juliet

Nemanja Radulović (violin)
91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales
Jaime Martín (conductor)

Sergey Prokofiev hoped his musical retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet would have ‘immediate appeal yet sound like nothing written before’. Even now, his score delivers on both fronts, showing the composer’s gift for melody and his ability to reconcile his music’s hard edge with a soft, romantic core. Jaime Martín conducts dramatic highlights from Prokofiev’s ballet score after charismatic Franco-Serbian soloist Nemanja Radulović sets off fireworks in the ultimate Romantic violin concerto. And, to begin, the 91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales unleashes the strident energies of Grażyna Bacewicz’s thrilling Overture, which quotes the famous ‘V for Victory’ motif from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.