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麻豆官网首页入口 SSO 2019-20 Season Shostakovich Symphony No.5

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Shostakovich Symphony No.5
19:30 Thu 30 Jan 2020 Glasgow City Halls
Michael Sanderling conducts works by Shostakovich, Barber and Mahler.
Michael Sanderling conducts works by Shostakovich, Barber and Mahler.

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Art and politics have always co-existed 鈥 but it鈥檚 not as if Art has always been given much of a choice in the matter. Threatened in a terrifyingly public way by Stalin鈥檚 authorities, Shostakovich responded with a work that he called 鈥渁 Soviet artist鈥檚 response to justified criticism鈥 and his Fifth Symphony has divided critics ever since. But not audiences: the crowd at the first performance, in Leningrad in 1937, responded first with tears, and then with cheers. Michael Sanderling has a personal connection to this music: his father was one of Shostakovich鈥檚 greatest friends, so he鈥檚 ideally placed to peel back the layers of irony, drama and pitch-black humour that conceal the passionately human heart of this great 20th century symphony. First, though, the 鈥渟addest music in the world鈥: Barber鈥檚 鈥楢dagio鈥 and Mahler鈥檚 鈥楰indertotenlieder鈥. The music of Gustav Mahler fascinated Shostakovich, and music doesn鈥檛 come any more sincere than this heart-rending cycle. Award-winning contralto Claudia Huckle performs it here: songs of anguish, it鈥檚 true, but also songs of a profound and undying love.

Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room (free to ticket-holders, subject to seating availability): Professor Marina Frolova-Walker of Clare College, Cambridge, introduces Shostakovich鈥檚 Fifth Symphony.

The concert will be recorded for future broadcast on 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3.