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Santtu-Matias Rouvali

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Nemanja Radulovic

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Basingstoke: Santtu Conducts Shostakovich & Prokofiev

Basingstoke

United Kingdom

The Anvil

Public

Concert

Symphony No. 1 in D Major, op. 25 ("The Classical")

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77

Symphony No. 1 in F minor

Akshay C K

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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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Basingstoke: Santtu Conducts Shostakovich & Prokofiev by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, From (2025/2025), Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali, The Anvil, Basingstoke, United Kingdom

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