Symphoniker Hamburg / Sayaka Shoji / Steven Sloane
Sibelius: Violin Concerto / Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8
Milestones of music history
In the early 20th century, Jean Sibelius wrote a violin concerto that explored the expressive possibilities of the violin for the modern age. Despite that, the soaring, virtuosic and dance-like sounds do not break with the Late Romantic tradition.
Between Dmitri Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony, in which he thematises the horrors of battle in Leningrad, and his Ninth, which mocks the Soviet propaganda message of victory, the Eighth (1943) is a sombre and contemplative work in which the liberal-minded composer grappled with his own despair. This individualistic approach led the Soviet cultural authorities to put the symphony on their index of censored works five years later.
Performers
Symphoniker Hamburg
Sayaka Shoji violin
conductor Steven Sloane
Programme
Jean Sibelius
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, Op. 47
Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65
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