| Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975) | Symphonic excerpts to accompany a live screening of Battleship Potemkin |
| Philharmonia Orchestra | |
| Vladimir Ashkenazy | Conductor |
Our Voices of Revolution: Russia 1917 series opens with the live screening of a silent film that tells an iconic story from the first Russian Revolution in 1905. Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 masterpiece of film-making and Soviet propaganda, portrays mutiny in the Imperial navy. Its most dramatic sequence is one of the most famous in cinema: the massacre at the Odessa Steps with its culminating scene of the falling perambulator.
Accompanying the film, Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts a special arrangement of music from the symphonies of Shostakovich.
General booking opens 8 February 2017 9:30 am