Prom 65 - The Berliner Philharmoniker Plays Schnittke and Shostakovich
Work:: Prom 65 (S6002)
Part of the BBC Proms.
Production:: The Berliner Philharmoniker Plays Schnittke and Shostakovich (T0809105058)
In the second of two concerts, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko perform two 20th-century Soviet masterpieces. Originally composed for Yuri Bashmet (whose name is woven through the work as a musical theme) and performed here by the great German violist Tabea Zimmermann, Schnittke's Viola Concerto brings out the elegiac quality of its solo instrument. The concerto's charged lament sets the scene for Shostakovich's 10th Symphony - a musical portrait of Stalin that convulses with horror, terror and brutality. But hope breaks through in the symphony's blazing close.
Listing:: L02069144079
The Berliner Philharmoniker Plays Schnittke and Shostakovich
In the second of two concerts, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko perform two 20th-century Soviet masterpieces. Originally composed for Yuri Bashmet (whose name is woven through the work as a musical theme) and performed here by the great German violist Tabea Zimmermann, Schnittke's Viola Concerto brings out the elegiac quality of its solo instrument. The concerto's charged lament sets the scene for Shostakovich's 10th Symphony - a musical portrait of Stalin that convulses with horror, terror and brutality. But hope breaks through in the symphony's blazing close.
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