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Details

Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace
Sloane Square, Belgravia

London
SW1X 9DQ
England


Programme

Jean SibeliusRakastava, Op.14
Edward ElgarCello Concerto in E minor, Op.85
Dmitry Shostakovich2 Pieces for String Octet, Op.11
Dmitry ShostakovichChamber Symphony

Performers

Alexey Stadler – Cello
Vladimir Ashkenazy – Conductor

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Programme Note

There’s an abundance of passion and intensity in Vladimir Ashkenazy’s programme. At its heart lies Elgar’s searing Cello Concerto: written in the aftermath of the First World War, it’s a potent elegy for a lost age. Making his UK concerto debut is the astoundingly gifted Russian cellist Alexey Stadler.

Like Shostakovich, Vladimir Ashkenazy experienced at first hand the life of an artist in the Soviet Union. Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony is an orchestration of his tragic Eighth Quartet, written at white heat and dedicated to ‘the victims of fascism and war’.

Sibelius Rakastava (The Lover) is a real rarity but no less compelling for all that, abounding in brooding atmosphere.

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