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Shostakovich x Beethoven

Name: Shostakovich x Beethoven
Start: 2026-02-03T19:30:00
Location: Royal Festival Hall

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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In communist Russia, Soviet officials called it an ‘optimistic tragedy’. Shostakovich simply called it his Tenth Symphony. Dark, tense, packed with secret messages and featuring at its centre a terrifying scherzo that might or might not be musical portrait of Stalin himself. Shostakovich’s Tenth is one of the greatest of all 20th-century symphonies, and few living conductors understand it more intimately than RPO Music Director Vasily Petrenko. ‘...

Program

Galina Ustvolskaya - The Dream of Stepan Razin

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10

Composer

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 1

Composer

Participants

Vasily Petrenko

Conductor

Benjamin Grosvenor

Piano

Yuriy Yurchuk