Shostakovich 15 at City Halls
Thu 7 May 2015
Grand Hall
Shostakovich 15
Shostakovich 15
Performances & Interviews
Programme
- Sinfonietta
- Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings (Piano Concerto No. 1)
- Symphony No. 15 in A major
Performers
- Mark O'Keeffetrumpet
- Garrick Ohlssonpiano
- Alpesh Chauhanconductor (please note change)
Composers
Concert Information
Some composers fade peacefully into old age: others do things rather differently. The 71 year-old Jan谩膷ek took a massive orchestra, lined up eleven more trumpets and let fly with his extraordinary Sinfonietta: a huge, brassy shout of joy that has to be heard live to be truly believed. Shostakovich, meanwhile, wrote a final symphony that seems to ask as many questions as it answers 鈥� and simply refuses to sit still and be taken seriously. Perhaps the brilliantly witty First Piano Concerto that Shostakovich wrote at the other end of his career will shed some light; but with 大象传媒 SSO guest Garrick Ohlsson joining Alpesh Chauhan as soloist, entertainment, at any rate, is guaranteed.
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room
Writer and broadcaster Stephen Johnson introduces the concert.
Post-Concert Coda (approximately 10 minutes after the main concert):
Garrick Ohlsson performs two works for solo piano by Scriabin, the Po猫me Op.32, No.1 of 1903 and the Sonata No.5 in F鈾� major, Op.53 of 1907.
