NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Christina Nilsson / Semyon Bychkov

War, despair, grief, farewell, death – the works in this concert program deal with very serious matters and are therefore not exactly "light fare." Yet where can music touch us more deeply, where can we experience it more intensely than when dealing with precisely these tragically current themes? Following his cancellation in January due to illness, Maestro Semyon Bychkov returns to the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, pairing Dmitri Shostakovich's...