Petrenko conducts Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony

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Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

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Programme

Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)	Symphony no. 8 in B minor "Unfinished", D.759
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)	Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, song cycle, Op.31
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975)	Symphony no. 5 in D minor, Op.47

Performers

Mark Padmore	Tenor
Katy Woolley	French horn
Philharmonia Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko	Conductor

A concert of key works by Schubert, Britten and Shostakovich.

The two completed movements of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony ushered in the Romantic style, which can be heard resonating in Britten's hauntingly beautiful song cycle.

Shostakovich had effectively been backed into a corner by Stalin's cultural watchdogs when he produced his all-conquering Fifth Symphony as an 'artist's response to just criticism'.

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