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London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Shostakovich

Name: London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Shostakovich
Start: 2026-04-15T18:30:00
Location: Barbican Centre

Barbican Centre

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Shostakovich’s Symphony No 5 was begun in 1937, a year after Stalin condemned the composer’s opera Lady Macbeth as ‘muddle instead of music’. On the surface, the Fifth falls back into Soviet line with its clear sense of structure and abundance of tunes. But there’s an underlying menace to the opening movement, a brooding darkness to the Largo, while the surging finale is surely nothing short of Shostakovich at his most bitingly ironic.

Program

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5

Participants

Antonio Pappano

Conductor

Barbican Centre

Producer

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1 dates (15 Apr - 15 Apr)

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