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Special Concert International Shostakovich Festival Gohrisch

Name: Special Concert International Shostakovich Festival Gohrisch
Start: 2025-06-25T20:00:00
Location: Kulturpalast Dresden

Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

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Shostakovich’s two piano concertos are worlds apart. The lively humour of the first, which dates back to 1933, is reminiscent of music for the silent screen; indeed, the composer had once earned his living as a cinema pianist. The neoclassical second from 1957, on the other hand, seems unrooted in time. The composer’s own view was merciless: »I have finished a piano concerto that has no redeeming artistic merits«. Yet perhaps his words should be ...

Program

Dmitri Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 1

Dmitri Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 2

Composer

Kurt Weill - Symphony No. 2

Composer

Participants

Kirill Gerstein

Piano

Marie Jacquot

Conductor

Helmut Fuchs