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Karg, Munich Philharmonic, Sokhiev: Opening Concert of the Dresden Music Festival at Kulturpalast Dresden

Dresden, Kulturpalast Dresden — Main Hall

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About the Event

Tugan Sokhiev, who leads this year’s opening night concert with the Munich Philharmonic, is renowned around the world as a magician of sound. Shostakovich’s Sixth Symphony, written in 1939, is a piece marked by war. Planned as a great, monumental apotheosis of Lenin involving soloists, chorus and orchestra, the end result turned out to be a purely instrumental work of only three movements (apparently a conscious decision made by the composer, in contrast to his original concept). Gustav Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, which he composed in Bad Aussee and Maiernigg in Austria, was originally conceived as a »symphonic humoresque«. Ultimately, however, despite the »heavenly world« portrayed in the fourth movement, it ended up betraying multiple cracks and rifts amidst its blue skies.

Program

  • Shostakovich, Dmitri Dmitriyevich – Symphony no. 6 in B Minor op. 54
  • Mahler, Gustav – Symphony No. 4 in G major
Program is subject to change

Artists

Conductor: Sokhiev, Tugan
Orchestra: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
Soprano: Karg, Christiane

Address

Kulturpalast Dresden, Schloßstr. 2, Dresden, Germany — Google Maps

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