Shostakovich: The Year 1957

10 Apr 2019, Barbican, London

19:30 Wed 10 Apr 2019 Next Event

大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2018-19 Season Shostakovich: The Year 1957

19:30 Wed 10 Apr 2019 Barbican, London

Semyon Bychkov brings together three of Shostakovich鈥檚 best-loved pieces; all products of the same golden year, 1957 鈥� in a concert that climaxes with a performance of the powerful Eleventh Symphony.

Programme

- - Dmitry Shostakovich
  - Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major
  - Variations on a Theme by Glinka(for piano)
  - Symphony No 11 in G minor 'The Year 1905'

Performers

Composers

Dmitry Shostakovich

About This Event

While the Second Piano Concerto, composed for Shostakovich鈥檚 pianist son Maxim, frames its exquisite central Andante with outer movements filled with musical-in-jokes and energy, the Eleventh Symphony is a sombre work 鈥� a 鈥榮ymphony written in blood鈥�, whose defiant rage and grief takes inspiration both from Russia鈥檚 failed 1905 Revolution and the Hungarian Uprising of 1957 itself.

Semyon Bychkov conducts, with Alexei Volodin as soloist in both the concerto and the composer鈥檚 musical homage to his revered forebear 鈥� the Variations on a Theme by Glinka.