Repertoire
Britten – Sinfonia da Requiem (21’)
Shostakovich – Violin Concerto No. 1 (36’)
Sibelius – Symphony No. 5 (31’)
Performers
Edward Gardner – conductor
Patricia Kopatchinskaja – violin
Big music demands big personalities, and they don’t come much bigger than violinist and all-round phenomenon Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
Sibelius sees a flight of swans on a summer evening and hears a melody that could have been wrought from the elements. Britten opens the emotional floodgates and creates one of 20th-century music’s mightiest outpourings of grief. And Shostakovich whispers secrets in the shadows in a concerto that refuses to be silent. It’s all about memory and all about truth. Big music demands big personalities, and they don’t come much bigger than violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja: virtuoso, storyteller and all-round phenomenon. With Edward Gardner conducting, she’ll drive straight to the heart of this powerful programme.
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