Name: Canellakis Conducts Shostakovich
Start: 2023-10-28T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-10-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: South Bank Centre

Organization

Conductor

Karina Canellakis

Instrumentalist

Jonathan Biss

Piano

Orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Southbank Centre

Canellakis Conducts Shostakovich

London

United Kingdom

Royal Festival Hall

Canellakis Conducts Shostakovich: The Creatures of Prometheus, op. 43 Beethoven (+2 More)

Public

The Creatures of Prometheus, op. 43

Piano Concerto No. 2 in B♭ major, op. 19

Symphony No.8, Op.47

Approved

South Bank Centre

As his nation faced a brutal military invasion, Shostakovich poured his feelings into a symphony on a monumental scale.

His Eighth Symphony is massive, uncompromising and so honest that after the war, the Soviet authorities banned it.

Under the LPO’s inspirational Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis, it has the potential to shake you to the core.

It’s a shattering contrast to the sunlit optimism and irrepressible wit of Beethoven at his youthful best, with a soloist – Jonathan Biss – who has described Beethoven’s music as ‘the greatest joy of my life’.

English

Canellakis Conducts Shostakovich by Beethoven, Shostakovich, From (2023/2023), Conductor Karina Canellakis, South Bank Centre, London, United Kingdom

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Ensemble

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