Name: BBC Symphony OrchestraSaraste
Start: 2020-01-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-01-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Conductor

Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Singer

Karen Cargill

Soloist

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Saraste

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Barbican Concert Hall

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Saraste: Water Atlas Fagerlund (+2 More)

Public

Private

Water Atlas

Vier Lieder

Symphony No.8, Op.47

Approved

Experience Shostakovich’s masterpiece of despair, grotesquery and anger from height of World War II and a brand new work from a compelling new voice from Finland.

On 4 November 1943, a war-fatigued audience in Moscow heard the first performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony. Unlike its predecessor, this was no rallying call-to-arms. It was masterpiece of despair, grotesquery and anger powered forward by music both grief-stricken in stillness and hurtling in paranoia. The piece was banned immediately.

Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts Shostakovich’s denunciation of the futility of war alongside the lustrous songs by Alma Mahler with mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill.  A UK premiere by Sebastian Fagerlund – a composer shepherding Finnish orchestral music into a thrilling new era – is the climax to a monumental, awe-inspiring trilogy of orchestral works.

English

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Saraste by Fagerlund, Mahler, A., Shostakovich, From (2020/2020), Conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

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Venues