SWR Symphonieorchester / Antoine Tamestit / Teodor Currentzis
Nikodijević: Viola Concerto / Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13
Music as memorial
Shostakovich’s 13th Symphony »Babi Yar«, which thematises the National Socialists’ massacre of Ukrainian Jews in 1941, is one of the most harrowing musical denouncements of crimes against humanity. In his role as chief conductor of the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the Greek-Russian star conductor Teodor Currentzis now presents this magnum opus. Antoine Tamestit also performs a new viola concerto written especially for him by the Serbian composer Marko Nikodijević.
In his works, Nikodijević often combines musical quotations from different historical eras to create a sensuous and opulent tonal language. This is particularly true of his 2022 Viola Concerto.
Exactly 60 years earlier, in December 1962, Shostakovich’s 13th Symphony for bass, men’s chorus and orchestra was given its premiere in Moscow. The title »Babi Yar« refers to a 1961 poem of the same name by Yevgeny Yevtushenko about the murder of 34,000 Jews by the SS in Babi Yar, Ukraine.
Performers
SWR Symphonieorchester
Estnischer Nationaler Männerchor
Alexander Vinogradov bass
Antoine Tamestit viola
conductor Teodor Currentzis
Programme
Marko Nikodijević
Psalmodie for Viola and Orchestra / commissioned by SWR
– Interval –
Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Symphony No. 13 in B-flat minor, Op. 113 »Babi Yar«
Encore:
Sergej Prokofjew
Ouvertüre über hebräische Themen c-Moll op. 34 für Klarinette, Klavier und Streichquintett
Béla Kovács
Sholem - Alekhem, Rov Feidman! für Klarinette, Viola, Streichquintett, Klavier und Akkordeon / Bearbeitung von Anton Hollich
Șerban Nichifor
Klezmer-Tanz für Klarinette, Streichquintett, Tamburin und Klavier
Spotlight
Teodor Currentzis