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Act of Defiance

Name: Act of Defiance
Start: 2025-05-30T19:45:00
Location: Ulster Hall

Ulster Orchestra

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Was it, or wasn’t it, an act of defiance and bitter retort to Stalin’s displeasure? Shostakovich’s life was so utterly and constantly in peril that he could never publicly declare whether his Fifth Symphony was simply ‘a Soviet artist’s reply to just criticism’ or a satirical puncturing of the dictator, deliberately hollow but dressed as adulation. But either way, it’s a phenomenal piece of music – playful, poignant and magisterial, it’s a blockb...

Program

Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5

Walton - Cello Concerto

Participants

Nicolas Altstaedt

Cello

Dinis Sousa

Conductor

Ulster Orchestra

Producer

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1 dates (30 May - 30 May)