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31 Jan 2020, Music Hall, Aberdeen
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麻豆官网首页入口 SSO 2019-20 Season Shostakovich Symphony No.5 in Aberdeen

麻豆官网首页入口 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Shostakovich Symphony No.5 in Aberdeen
19:30 Fri 31 Jan 2020 Music Hall, Aberdeen
Michael Sanderling conducts works by Shostakovich, Barber and Mahler at the Music Hall and is joined by contralto Claudia Huckle.
Michael Sanderling conducts works by Shostakovich, Barber and Mahler at the Music Hall and is joined by contralto Claudia Huckle.

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About This Event

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.

The concert will be recorded by 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3, for broadcast at 7.30pm on Wednesday 5 February 2020. The presenter is Jamie MacDougall.