大象传媒

From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

The 大象传媒 Philharmonic under chief guest conductor Vassily Sinaisky perform music by Shostakovich and Brahms, featuring young Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan.

The concert opens with orchestral interludes taken from Shostakovich's opera Katerina Ismaylova (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk). Written at the height of Stalin's purges in the 1930s, it was popular with audiences, but was condemned in an anonymous article in Pravda and banned in the Soviet Union for almost 30 years. The composer extracted these interludes from his 1962 reworking of the piece. It is followed by Sibelius's First Symphony, which introduces the colourful tones and creative harmonies which were to become the hallmark of all his orchestral works.

大象传媒 Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Shostakovich: Orchestral Interludes (Katerina Ismaylova)
Sibelius: Symphony No 1.