BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2018-19 Season Shostakovich: The Year 1957 - BBC Symphony Orchestra

10 Apr 2019, Barbican, London

19:30 Wed 10 Apr 2019 Next Event

Shostakovich: The Year 1957

19:30 Wed 10 Apr 2019 Barbican, London

Semyon Bychkov brings together three of Shostakovich’s best-loved pieces; all products of the same golden year, 1957 – 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

Semyon Bychkov
conductor
conductor
Alexei Volodin
piano
piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Composers

Dmitry Shostakovich

About This Event

While the Second Piano Concerto, composed for Shostakovich’s 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 – a ‘symphony written in blood’, whose defiant rage and grief takes inspiration both from Russia’s 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’s musical homage to his revered forebear – the Variations on a Theme by Glinka.