Name: Shostakovich Symphony No.5
Start: 2020-01-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-01-31T00:00:00.000Z
Location: City Halls

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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Michael Sanderling

Orchestra

Singer

Claudia Huckle

Soloist

Shostakovich Symphony No.5

Aberdeen

United Kingdom

Music Hall

Glasgow

City Halls

Grand Hall

Public

Concert

Adagio For Strings, Op. 11

Songs on the Death of Children

Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, op. 47

Jnanakumar P

Approved

Art and politics have always co-existed – but it’s not as if Art has always been given much of a choice in the matter. Threatened in a terrifyingly public way by Stalin’s authorities, Shostakovich responded with a work that he called “a Soviet artist’s response to justified criticism” and his Fifth Symphony has divided critics ever since. But not audiences: the crowd at the first performance, in Leningrad in 1937, responded first with tears, and then with cheers. Michael Sanderling has a personal connection to this music: his father was one of Shostakovich’s greatest friends, so he’s ideally placed to peel back the layers of irony, drama and pitch-black humour that conceal the passionately human heart of this great 20th century symphony. First, though, the “saddest music in the world”: Barber’s ‘Adagio’ and Mahler’s ‘Kindertotenlieder’. The music of Gustav Mahler fascinated Shostakovich, and music doesn’t come any more sincere than this heart-rending cycle. Award-winning contralto Claudia Huckle performs it here: songs of anguish, it’s true, but also songs of a profound and undying love.

Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room (free to ticket-holders, subject to seating availability): Professor Marina Frolova-Walker of Clare College, Cambridge, introduces Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony.

English

Shostakovich Symphony No.5 by Barber, Mahler, Shostakovich, De la (2020/2020), Dirijor Michael Sanderling, City Halls, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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