Name: A Dark Century
Start: 2024-11-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-11-27T00:00:00.000Z
Location: South Bank Centre

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Orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Andrey Boreyko

Instrumentalist

Gidon Kremer

Violin

Singer

Spoken

Taras Shtonda

Narrator

Others

London Philharmonic Choir

Bass

Southbank Centre

A Dark Century

London

United Kingdom

Royal Festival Hall

Public

Concert

Survivor from Warshaw  Op. 46

Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 67

Symphony 13

Joshua Dos

Approved

South Bank Centre

A Dark Century: A Survivor from Warshaw, op. 46 Schoenberg, Arnold (+2 More)

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.

English

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Cast

Ensemble