Name: Tears and Laughter
Start: 2023-03-18T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-03-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Southbank Centre

Organization

Instrument

Kristina Blaumane

Cello

Direction d'orchestre

Andrey Boreyko

Chanteur

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Others

London Philharmonic Choir

Orchestra

Southbank Centre

Tears and Laughter

Londres

Royaume-Uni

Royal Festival Hall

Tears and Laughter: Nova Polevá (+2 More)

Public

Symphonie n° 5 en ré mineur, op. 47

Nova

The Dong with a Luminous Nose

Valide

Shostakovich’s mighty Fifth Symphony is paired with world premieres by Victoria Vita Polevá and Elena Langer in a London Philharmonic Orchestra concert.

Even today, it’s hard to tell whether the Fifth Symphony tells a story of triumph or despair – or whether the composer’s description of it as ‘a Soviet artist’s reply to just criticism’ was anything more than a Stalin-era survival strategy.

But there’s no such ambiguity about the impassioned Nova by Kyiv-born Victoria Vita Polevá.

Or indeed about tonight’s premiere from Elena Langer; in fact, there’s a definite smile on the face of this tribute – part choral work, part cello concerto – to the nonsense verse of Edward Lear.

Exactly as you’d expect from the endlessly imaginative composer of Figaro Gets a Divorce.

English

Crédits de représentation (Distribution et équipe de production )

Ensemble

Coproducteur