RIAS Chamber Choir & Ensemble Resonanz

RKC chief conductor Justin Doyle has selected three compositions for the joint concert: James MacMillan's setting of the medieval sequence Stabat Mater, Maximilian Steinberg's "Passion Week" and the Chamber Symphony in C minor op. 110a by Dmitri Shostakovich. In his eighth string quartet, which forms the basis for this composition, Shostakovich looks back on his life musically: "I thought that after my death, no one would probably compose a work ...