Shostakovich by Heart

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

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Programme

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893)	Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)	Recitativo and Scherzo-Caprice, Op.6
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975)	Symphony no. 9 in E flat major, Op.70 (performed from memory)

Performers

Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon	Conductor
Valeriy Sokolov	Violin

Aurora brings its thrilling memorised approach to Shostakovich’s Ninth, harnessing the power of an orchestra playing from memory to explore a 20th-century masterpiece from the inside out.

Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon teams up with BBC Radio 3’s Tom Service to offer audiences a uniquely vivid musical introduction with live excerpts.

They unpack the musical architecture of the symphony’s fleet-footed melodies and dance-filled rhythms, before Aurora’s musicians put it back together with a complete performance of the work by heart.

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