Date
Thursday 17 September 2015 at 8:00pm
Location
Concertgebouw
Concertgebouwplein 2-6,
Amsterdam,
1071 LN,
Netherlands
Tel: +31 20 6718345
Link
Description
ANDRIS NELSONS CONDUCTS SHOSTAKOVICH, JANINE JANSEN PERFORMS BARTÓK
WORKS
BÉLA BARTÓK
Violin Concerto No. 1
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Symfonie nr. 7 'Leningrad'
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Andris Nelsons are pursuing their complete Shostakovich cycle together. After the Eighth, Fourth, Fifth and Tenth Symphonies, they now turn their attention to the Seventh.
The work, which Shostakovich wrote during the Germans’ siege of Leningrad, is a symbol of resistance against the Nazi regime and a musical testament to the millions of Soviet citizens who died during the Great Patriotic War.
The march-like passage in the first movement, consisting of a crescendo lasting no fewer than 300 bars and in which the German national anthem, among other things, can be heard, is particularly well known.
Bartók parodied this very march in his Concerto for Orchestra. Before the interval, star violinist Janine Jansen will be performing Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 1, a work which had to wait fifty years after it was written, in 1958, for its first performance.
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