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A Dark Century
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- Andrey Boreyko conductor
- Gidon Kremer violin
- Taras Shtonda narrator/bass
- London Philharmonic Choir
As part of the LPO’s exploration of memory, Andrey Boreyko conducts three testaments from a dark century.
Three composers cry out in the void. Confronted by unimaginable horror, Schoenberg rediscovered his Jewish roots, and created a musical drama of savage, defiant courage, in tribute to the Holocaust victims. In Soviet Russia, the authorities expected Shostakovich to write 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. As part of our exploration of memory, Andrey Boreyko conducts three testaments from a dark century – with the incomparable Gidon Kremer as soloist in the Violin Concerto by Mieczysław Weinberg: composer, survivor and Shostakovich’s most devoted friend.
Wed 27 Nov 2024, 7.30pm
London, Royal Festival Hall
Tickets £7 - £70
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Free pre-concert event
LPO 2024/25 Writer-in-Residence Jeremy Eichler gives a talk on this evening’s programme. 6.15–6.45pm in the Royal Festival Hall.
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Gidon Kremer is one of those rare musicians capable of illuminating a new work in such a way as to reveal its true greatness.
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