Name: London Symphony OrchestraNoseda, Stikhina & Kowalyow - Shostakovich & Beethoven
Start: 2022-02-03T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-02-03T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Conductor

Gianandrea Noseda

Soprano

Elena Stikhina

Bass-baritone

Vitalij Kowaljow

Bass

Barbican Centre

London Symphony Orchestra/Noseda, Stikhina & Kowalyow - Shostakovich & Beethoven

London

United Kingdom

Public

Symphony No. 14, Op. 135

Approved

Across two centuries, Beethoven and Shostakovich speak to each other – and to us – as Gianandrea Noseda finds the common humanity in two very different, but equally powerful, symphonies.

Opposites attract, they say. Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony is a searching, intensely personal meditation on untimely death. Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony explodes outwards with unstoppable energy: a sunlit, exuberant affirmation of life, in music that seems to make the whole universe dance.

These two composers saw humanity at its best and worst, and whether they’re dealing with darkness or light, both symphonies pierce straight to the heart with uncompromising sincerity and power. For Gianandrea Noseda, Shostakovich and Beethoven are natural partners, each illuminating and affirming the other; add Noseda’s special affinity with both composers, plus two of Russia’s finest living singers, and this should be a combustible mixture.

English

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