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Edinburgh International Festival

Name: Edinburgh International Festival
Start: 2025-08-18T19:30:00
Location: Usher Hall

Aurora Orchestra

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In 1936, Shostakovich’s new opera was slammed by the official Soviet paper Pravda as ‘muddle instead of music’. In Joseph Stalin’s Russia, a review like that could be deadly. Shostakovich knew he had to redeem himself fast. The result was his life-saving Fifth Symphony.

Program

Abel Selaocoe - Four Spirits, for cello, voice and orchestra

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5

Participants

Abel Selaocoe

Cello

Nicholas Collon

Conductor

Bernhard Schimpelsberger

Percussion

Aurora Orchestra

Producer