NOSPR / Kirill Karabits / Natalya Romaniw / Joshua Bloom - livestream (option B) - NOSPR

According to health&safety restrictions from the 4th November 2020, all cultural institutions, including ours, are closed to the public. 

We would like to kindly invite you to watch in live transmission this concert on medici.tv and our website.

In 1962 Shostakovich finished work on his Thirteenth Symphony, inspired by a Yevtushenko poem about the massacre of Jews at Babi Yar, and set about orchestrating Musorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death. Four years later, he was greatly troubled by the Warsaw Pact’s military intervention in Czechoslovakia, which provided the direct impulse for the Fourteenth Symphony, drawing on poetry by Lorca, Apollinaire, Küchelbecker and Rilke. As he confessed in a letter to a friend, ‘Everything I have written up to now over these long years has been preparation for this work’. So it seems like Shostakovich had been gearing up his life long to an even more forceful protest against the abomination of death than the one that Musorgsky’s screamed out in his songs.

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