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From Yiddish Folk Poetry

Name: From Yiddish Folk Poetry
Start: 2025-05-11T19:00:00
Location: Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding

Münchner Rundfunkorchester

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An extraordinary friendship connected Dmitri Shostakovich and his Jewish colleague Mieczysław Weinberg, who came from Poland and fled to Minsk in 1939 and later lived in Moscow. They both suffered repression and threats - and at the same time had to find a way to defy the Soviet cultural ideology with their music and to survive. As was the case then, their works in this program also enter into a subtle dialogue with one another, characterized by ...

Program

Dmitri Shostakovich - Chamber Symphony

Composer

Dmitri Shostakovich - From Yiddish Folk Poetry

Mieczyslaw Weinberg - Symphony No. 12

Participants

Jamie Barton

Singer

Maximilian Schmitt

Singer

Münchner Rundfunkorchester

Producer