Name: Ravel & Shostakovich
Start: 2024-09-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-09-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Benaroya Hall

Admin

Seattle Symphony

Orchestra

Bertrand Chamayou

Piano

Conductor

Ludovic Morlot

Ravel & Shostakovich

Seattle

United States

Benaroya Hall

S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium

Public

Livre pour cordes

Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

Symphony No.8, Op.47

Sharan Allad

Approved

Our Symphonic Series opens with music born from great conflicts of the 20th Century. Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony dates from the darkest days of the Second World War, when making music scarcely seemed possible. He dedicated it to all victims of oppression. Conductor Emeritus Ludovic Morlot begins a season-long celebration marking 150 years since Maurice Ravel’s birth with Concerto for the Left Hand. Composed for Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in World War I, Ravel’s concerto spans the expressive power of the whole keyboard and bubbles with dark energy. We also salute the centenary of musical powerhouse Pierre Boulez.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble