Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 4 and a new work by Marko Nikodijević will be performed at:
— Elbphilharmonie Hamburg | 28 and 29 November
— Philharmonie Berlin | 1 December
— Philharmonie de Paris | 4 December
Tickets > https://bit.ly/3F9gRs7
The content and fate of Symphony No. 4 are equally tragic. The 29-year-old composer began to write the symphony when he was incredibly in demand, and his pieces premiered just after he composed them. But he completed the symphony as an object of a government attack, a victim of a hate campaign, and a man who sleeps in his clothes, prepared for a night arrest.
The symphony was first performed in 1961 by the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kirill Kondrashin. Since then, the history of interpreting and deciphering the Aesopian language of this colossal message has begun.
Fascinated by the work of Gustav Mahler, Shostakovich composed the symphony for a gigantic orchestra. The three-part cycle of Symphony No. 4 is more than one hour long and imbued in Mahlerian style with motley themes from dramatic recitatives to the most unbridled depictions of everyday life. The emotional structure of the symphony can be described only in superlative terms: from ultimate tension through pitiless irony to deadly despair.
Following the principle of combining classical and new music in one programme, Teodor Сurгentzis and musicAeterna will perform Shostakovich’s masterpiece and the world premiere of a work commissioned to Serbian composer Marko Nikodijević. His toccata for orchestra ‘parting of the waters into heavens and seas / dies secundus’ is a vibrant study on the Second Day of Creation, a picture of a fantasy world where water is divided into heaven and earth.
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