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Instrumentalist

Kristina Blaumane

Cello

Conductor

Andrey Boreyko

Singer

London Philharmonic Orchestra

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London Philharmonic Choir

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Southbank Centre

Tears and Laughter

London

United Kingdom

Royal Festival Hall

Tears and Laughter: Nova Polevá (+2 More)

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Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, op. 47

Nova

The Dong with a Luminous Nose

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South Bank Centre

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

Tears and Laughter by Shostakovich, Polevá, Langer, From (2023/2023), Conductor Andrey Boreyko, South Bank Centre, London, United Kingdom

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