As part of Moments Remembered Andrey Boreyko conducts three testaments from A Dark Century.
As part of Moments Remembered, the LPO’s exploration of memory, Andrey Boreyko conducts three testaments from A Dark Century on Wednesday 27 November. The incomparable Gidon Kremer will perform as soloist in the Violin Concerto by Mieczysław Weinberg: composer, survivor and Shostakovich’s most devoted friend.
The evening’s programme opens with A Survivor from Warsaw, Schoenberg’s a musical drama of savage, defiant courage, written in tribute to the Holocaust victims. And to conclude, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13; commissioned in Soviet Russia by the authorities who expected a propaganda symphony, but what they got was a searing denunciation of man’s inhumanity to man – more potent, and more urgent than ever in 2024.
There will also be a free pre-concert event with the Season Writer-in-Residence Jeremy Eichler giving a talk on the evening’s programme, from 6.15–6.45pm in the Royal Festival Hall.
More information from Jeremy Eichler about Moments Remembered here: Moments Remembered.
A Dark Century - London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wed 27 Nov 2024, 7.30pm
London, Royal Festival Hall
Tickets £7 - £70: A Dark Century
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