Fifty years after his death we celebrate the mastery of Shostakovich in a concert featuring his Violin Concerto and the mighty Seventh Symphony under the baton of our much-loved Principal Conductor, Ryan Bancroft.
Fifty years after his death we celebrate the mastery of Shostakovich in a concert featuring his Violin Concerto and the mighty Seventh Symphony under the baton of our much-loved Principal Conductor, Ryan Bancroft.
Fifty years after his death we celebrate the mastery of Shostakovich in a concert featuring his Violin Concerto and the mighty Seventh Symphony under the baton of our much-loved Principal Conductor, Ryan Bancroft.
From its broodingly dark opening Nocturne to an almost demonic Scherzo featuring a Jewish Klezmer-style dance for clarinet, and a grand Passacaglia to the brilliantly virtuosic Burlesque the First Violin Concerto is an artistic showcase on a mighty scale. Similarly powerful is his Leningrad Symphony - weightily eloquent and grand this symphony treads the line between Stalinist expectation and personal expression surrounding war. Playfully rhythmic, lamentingly tragic and sweepingly resolute themes rally with tremendous climaxes depicting defiance and heroism in the face of the invasions of war.
