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Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
2013-May-16, Royal Festival Hall: Salonen conducts Philharmonia Orchestra in Londonhttps://bachtrack.com/listing-rest-is-noise-philharmonia-salonen-shostakovich-orango2013-05-162013-05-16http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/concerts/16may13/?utm_medium=display&utm_source=bachtrack.comOn Thursday 16 May 2013 at 19:30
Festival: The Rest is NoiseProgramme
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975) | Orango | |
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975) | Symphony no. 4 in C minor, Op.43 |
Performers
Esa-Pekka Salonen | Conductor |
Philharmonia Voices | |
Philharmonia Orchestra | |
Irina Brown | Director |
Louis Price | Set Designer, Video Artist |
Kevin Treacy | Lighting Designer |
Ryan McKinny | Bass-baritone |
Allan Clayton | Tenor |
Richard Angas | Baritone |
Elisabeth Meister | Soprano |
Peter Hoare | Tenor |
Ashley Riches | Bass |
Orango is an unfinished satirical opera by Shostakovich, sketched while he was writing Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. He and his librettists conceived ‘a political lampoon against the bourgeois press’ involving a human-ape hybrid (!), but when the librettists failed to deliver their script in time for the planned 15th anniversary of the Revolution, the whole thing was dropped. Of the projected Prologue and three acts, only the 40-minute Prologue was completed in piano vocal score, which was discovered as recently as 2004 in a Moscow archive and subsequently orchestrated by the British composer Gerard McBurney. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted the world première with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in December 2011.
Concert performance in Russian with English surtitles
Part of Southbank Centre's The Rest is Noise, inspired by Alex Ross' book "The Rest is Noise"
Concert performance in Russian with English surtitles
Part of Southbank Centre's The Rest is Noise, inspired by Alex Ross' book "The Rest is Noise"