6. AKADEMIEKONZERT: VLADIMIR JUROWSKI

In the organizer's words:

Description:

Two great orchestral works from two very different periods: Joseph Haydn's Farewell Symphony and Dmitri D. Shostakovich's Eighth. Both are characterized by a dichotomy of sadness and rebellion. After a long summer season, the members of the court orchestra at Ezterházy Palace finally wanted to return home to their families, but the prince would not let them go. Haydn set a subversive protest note for the well-being of his fellow musicians to music by having one instrument after another fall silent and leave at the end. According to tradition, the prince understood the message and gave in. At the end of the Second World War, Shostakovich found the courage not to sing in jubilation, but to lament in pain the loss of millions of lives and personal freedom under the Stalinist regime. "Everything dark and shameful will pass away; everything beautiful will triumph," explained Shostakovich in a newspaper article. The dictator heard a threat in the contradiction between the music and the claimed expression and soon after had all performances of the work banned. His intuition did not prove him wrong. Today, Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony is regarded as a "tragedy of the present" (Ivan Martynov) and has lost none of its topicality.

Cast:

• Musical direction Vladimir Jurowski
• Bavarian State Orchestra

Price information:

The price varies depending on the seat category. Prices G , € 70 /63 /53 /40 /29 /17 /10 /7