Boston Symphony Orchestra: Andris Nelsons - All Shostakovich

When:
Saturday, May 03, 2025 12:00a -
11:30p

Where:
Boston Symphony Hall
301 Massachusetts Ave
Boston, MA 02115

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Admission:
Unknown

Hosted by:
tn Joseph Reid

Categories:
Art, Music

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Baiba Skride, violin

ALL-SHOSTAKOVICH program

Violin Concerto No. 1

-Intermission-

Symphony No. 8


A part of our series looking at the music and times of Dmitri Shostakovich and how the composer folded messages of revolution and resistance into his music during a politically turbulent time. Latvian violinist Baiba Skride brings her signature dulcet tones to Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1. This work is a deeply personal one, influenced by the composer’s fear of the Soviet censors and actual encounters with restrictive directives from the government. These bitter feelings toward the regime especially color the third and fourth movements. In this way and many others, we see the composer finding ways to stand up to prevailing political winds; for example, the whole piece is shot through with Jewish klezmer influence at a time when antisemitism was on the rise in the USSR.


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