Name: Britten Weekend: Britten And Russia
Start: 2019-10-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-10-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Snape Maltings Concert Hall

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BBC Welsh National Orchestra

Conductor

Jac van Steen

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Alban Gerhardt

Cello

Britten Weekend: Britten And Russia

Snape

United Kingdom

Snape Maltings Concert Hall

Public

Concert

Russian Funeral Music

Cello Symphony

Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op 93

Saurav Kumar

Approved

‘Write for the cello everything that your heart tells you, never mind how difficult it is!’

Rostropovich encouraged Britten. Britten’s quasi-concerto is big-hearted and intense, placing immense demands on its soloist.

There’s also an epic quality to Shostakovich’s tenth which starts in dark desolation and ends in dazzling brightness, giving one of music’s most brutal evocations of violence and terror along the way. Its conclusion seems to speak as much of barely-suppressed fury and raw defiance as it does of glorious triumph.

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Britten Weekend: Britten And Russia by Britten, Shostakovich, From (2019/2019), Conductor Jac van Steen, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, United Kingdom

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