BBC SO Shostakovich 2018/19

David Robertson conducts *The London Citizen Exceedingly Injured*, Britten's *Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings* and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1.

An all-Russian concert of firsts introduces the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s new joint leader with a major concerto performance and sees the orchestra perform a long-lost work by Stravinsky.

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.

Shostakovich’s emotionally-charged epic Fourth Symphony is the centrepiece of a concert that also includes a new concerto for BBCSO Principal Trombonist Helen Vollam.

Love and death collide with wit and irreverence in a programme of contemporary classics, which has one of the century’s most powerful symphonies at its heart.