Name: Basingstoke: Santtu Conducts Shostakovich & Prokofiev
Start: 2025-04-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-04-09T00:00:00.000Z
Location: The Anvil

Admin

Philharmonia Orchestra

Direzione d'orchestra

Santtu-Matias Rouvali

Violinista

Violinista (+1)

Nemanja Radulovic

Violino

Orchestra

The Anvil

Basingstoke: Santtu Conducts Shostakovich & Prokofiev

Basingstoke

Regno Unito

Concert

Concerto

Sinfonia n. 1 in re maggiore, op. 25 («La Classica»)

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, op. 77

Sinfonia n. 1 in fa minore, op. 10

Akshay C K

Approvato

Our Principal Conductor and Featured Artist join forces for an evening of 20th century classics.

Charismatic violinist Nemanja Radulović brings his ‘energy and firepower’ (Gramophone) to the Anvil stage in Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto. Met with disapproval by the Soviet authorities, the piece did not receive its premiere until after Stalin’s death. The anguish Shostakovich must have felt at being repressed is heard in the painfully beautiful, yearning unaccompanied third movement, which leads straight into the wild finale.

Music from a student Shostakovich completes this evening’s programme. Shostakovich was just 19 years old when we wrote his graduation piece at the Petrograd Conservatory. But don’t be fooled by his young age: already, we hear the composer’s distinctive voice and style in one of his finest works.

First, we hear Prokofiev’s “happy and uncomplicated”, Mozart-inspired Symphony No. 1. Light-hearted and filled with dances, it’s the perfect way to open the programme.

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Ensemble