Ely Sinfonia - Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky

Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky: two composers who, for different reasons, were persecuted in their own native country of Russia. Shostakovich spent almost his entire life under a totalitarian regime, living under constant threat of being banished to the Gulags, while Tchaikovsky was ostracised by the Czar, among others, for his homosexuality.

These two extraordinary composers provide the music for Ely Sinfonia’s spring concert, when the orchestra is joined by internationally renowned pianist Martin Roscoe in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 1, one of the most popular piano concertos of all time.

The concert ends with the dark tones of Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 7, ‘Leningrad’, which puts into music the horror and loneliness of the Leningrad that Stalin destroyed before Hitler finished it off.

War and retribution:
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto no. 1
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony no. 7, ‘Leningrad’

Martin Roscoe, piano
Steve Bingham, conductor
Ely Sinfonia

Tickets: £10, £20, £25
This event will have a licenced bar. No alcohol or glass may be brought into the Cathedral.

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