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RSNO Season 24-25: Shostakovich Eight

Name: RSNO Season 24-25: Shostakovich Eight
Start: 2025-04-04T19:30:00
Location: Usher Hall

Usher Hall

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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 ...

Program

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 8

Composer

Anna Clyne - Glasslands

Participants

Jonathon Heyward

Conductor

Jess Gillam

Saxophone

Usher Hall

Producer

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