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BrightonOh To Believe in Another World: Shostakovich Symphony No.10
Shostakovich: Symphony no. 10 in E minor, Op.93
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra; Joanna MacGregor; William Kentridge
GlyndebourneL’OrfeoNew production
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (Orpheus), SV318
Jonathan Cohen; William Kentridge; Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Sabine Theunissen; Greta Goiris; Urs Schönebaum; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
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COC triumphs with Kentridge’s brilliantly conceived Wozzeck
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William Kentridge's production of Berg’s Wozzeck has it all: wonderfully imaginative and disturbing designs, terrific acting and singing plus fabulous orchestral playing.
Oh To Believe in Another World: Shostakovich and Stalin on film
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William Kentridge's film, a patchwork collage depicting Shostakovich's complicated relationship with Stalin, is played as film score to his Tenth Symphony at the Southbank's genre-crossing Multitudes festival.
A toy-box of tyranny: Shostakovich, Stalin and Kentridge collide
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Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony is a massive and aptly complicated work to which William Kentridge’s film adds contextual layers of stop-motion animation and vintage footage in a surreal nightmare of tyranny.