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Nicholas Collon conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony.

The British conductor - best known in the UK for his work with the Aurora Orchestra - conducts Shostakovich's symphony premiered shortly after the death of Stalin. Indeed, one biographer has Shostakovich relating that: "I did depict Stalin in . . . the Tenth. I wrote it right after Stalin鈥檚 death, and no one has yet guessed what the symphony is about. It鈥檚 about Stalin and the Stalin years. The second part, the scherzo, is a musical portrait of Stalin, roughly speaking. Of course, there are many other things in it, but that鈥檚 the basis.鈥� The work was a notable success at its premiere but nonetheless it was scrutiny by the Composer鈥檚 Union. After three days of deliberation, the Union reached its conclusion: the Tenth Symphony was indeed "an optimistic tragedy.鈥� Before the Shostakovich, the young violin virtuoso, Augustin Hadelich plays Prokofiev's joyful Second Concerto, a work whose genesis reflected the composers travels in the mid-1030s. As Prokofiev wrote: "the main theme of the 1st movement was written in Paris, the first theme of the 2nd movement at Voronezh, the orchestration was finished in Baku and the premiere was given in Madrid in 1935."

Presented by Fiona Talkington

Gra偶yna Bacewicz: Overture
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 63
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor, op. 93

Augustin Hadelich (violin)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas Collon (conductor)