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Shostakovich: The Year 1957

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Semyon Bychkov

,Barbican Hall
Semyon Bychkov conducting 2018

Semyon Bychkov brings together three of Shostakovich’s best-loved pieces; all products of the same golden year, 1957 – in a concert that climaxes with a performance of the powerful Eleventh Symphony.

While the Second Piano Concerto, composed for Shostakovich’s pianist son Maxim, frames its exquisite central Andante with outer movements filled with musical-in-jokes and energy, the Eleventh Symphony is a sombre work – a ‘symphony written in blood’, whose defiant rage and grief takes inspiration both from Russia’s failed 1905 Revolution and the Hungarian Uprising of 1957 itself.

Semyon Bychkov conducts, with Alexei Volodin as soloist in both the concerto and the composer’s musical homage to his revered forebear – the Variations on a Theme by Glinka.

Tagged with: Classical music BBC Symphony Orchestra 2018–19 BBC Symphony Orchestra 2018–19 Multibuy

Programme

  • Shostakovich  
  •   Piano Concerto No. 2
  •   Variations on a Theme by Glinka (piano only)
  •   Symphony No. 11

Performers

  • BBC Symphony Orchestra  
  • Semyon Bychkov   conductor
  • Alexei Volodin   piano

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The Barbican Hall is located within the main Barbican building. Head to Level G and follow the signs to find your seating level. 

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Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS

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