Act of Defiance: Walton & Shostakovich
Schedule
Fri May 30 2025 at 07:45 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Ulster Hall | Belfast, NI
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Walton: Cello Concerto Shostakovich: Symphony No.5
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Dinis Sousa: Conductor
Nicholas Altstaedt: Cello
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Was it, or wasn’t it, an act of defiance and bitter retort to Stalin’s displeasure?
Shostakovich’s life was so utterly and constantly in peril that he could never publicly declare whether his Fifth Symphony was simply ‘a Soviet artist’s reply to just criticism’ or a satirical puncturing of the dictator, deliberately hollow but dressed as adulation.
But either way, it’s a phenomenal piece of music – playful, poignant and magisterial, it’s a blockbuster end to the Season.
Walton’s lyrically romantic Cello Concerto sets the scene for Shostakovich’s dramatic fireworks.
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Where is it happening?
Ulster Hall, 34 Bedford Street,Belfast, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
