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Shostakovich’s Masterpiece: Symphony No.14

Thursday 2 May 2013 7:30 pm
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall

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“Everything I have written, over all these long years, has merely been a preparation for this one work.” Shostakovich wasn’t sure whether his Fourteenth Symphony was even a symphony at all. He just knew that it was his masterpiece. And this soulshaking meditation on life, death and tyranny, premiered in the week The Beatles released Abbey Road, is certain to be a landmark in Vasily Petrenko’s internationally-acclaimed Shostakovich cycle.

The masterly German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott gives a rare performance of the moving Cello Symphony by Shostakovich’s great friend (and dedicatee of the Fourteenth Symphony) Benjamin Britten.

‘The magnetic young German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott administered a dose of adrenaline ... a fearless player with technique to burn.’
New York Times

This concert will finish at approx. 9.30pm. 

*Liverpool Philharmonic regrets that due to circumstances beyond our control, Olga Mykytenko (soprano) is indisposed and unable to take part in this concert. We are grateful to Gal James for stepping in at short notice.