Name: Shostakovich's Symphony No.5
Start: 2025-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-04-13T00:00:00.000Z
Location: The Bridgewater Hall

Admin

Hallé Orchestra

Conductor

Kahchun Wong

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Gareth Small

Trumpet

Shostakovich's Symphony No.5

Manchester

United Kingdom

The Bridgewater Hall

Public

Concert

Symphony No. 1 in D Major, op. 25 ("The Classical")

Concerto for trumpet and orchestra in A flat major op. 94

Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, op. 47

Sushant Karmakar

Approved

Much of Shostakovich’s extraordinary output was profoundly marked by politics and the judgements of censors. His monumental Fifth Symphony, one of the greatest and most powerful of twentieth-century orchestral works was, supposedly, ‘A Soviet artist’s response to just criticism’. It is now known that this popular symphony was composed as a work of defiance so subtle that no-one realised at the time.

Gareth Small, the Hallé’s very own renowned Principal Trumpet, joins Kahchun Wong to play in Arutiunian’s virtuosic Trumpet Concerto. Optimistic in nature, alive with sinuous melodies reminiscent of the composer’s native Armenia, it is a favourite amongst trumpeters, and audiences, providing ample opportunity for the soloist to – for lack of a better phrase – show off a bit.

Prokofiev composed his First Symphony, dubbing it ‘The Classical’, as a reinterpretation of the styles of the composers of the classical period. It is light and airy like Mozart, grandiose like Haydn, and an altogether mischievously joyful work.

English

Shostakovich's Symphony No.5 by Prokofiev, Arutiunian, A. G., Shostakovich, Ó (2025/2025), Seoltóir Kahchun Wong, The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, United Kingdom

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Ensemble

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid