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RSNO Season 24-25: Shostakovich Eight
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War creates lies, but it also exposes uncomfortable truths, and as the Soviet Union faced the onslaught of Nazi Germany in 1943, Shostakovich poured his feelings into a symphony on a gigantic scale. Shostakovich’s Eighth is music forged from blood, fire and steel – colossal, uncompromising, and so powerful that after the war the authorities banned it. Jonathon Heyward conducts and joins an RSNO favourite – saxophonist Jess Gillam – in a thriller ...
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1 dates (4 Apr - 4 Apr)
Apr
4
Fri
7:30 pm
Usher Hall
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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