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Lintu conducts Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony

Name: Lintu conducts Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony
Start: 2025-10-24T19:30:00
Location: Barbican Centre

BBC Symphony Orchestra

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It’s a bitter irony, but bad politics sometimes produce great art. Shostakovich wrote his Eighth Symphony at the height of the Second World War, and every bar of this colossal work resounds with violent struggle. Schnittke’s Viola Concerto was born in the dying days of the Soviet Union: a voice of sorrow, mischief and subversion beneath the grey skies of the Cold War.

Program

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 8

Composer

Alfred Schnittke - Viola Concerto

Participants

Hannu Lintu

Conductor

Timothy Ridout

Viola

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Producer

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