EXPRESSIVE, MAGICAL SOUND
GABETTA — STAATSKAPELLE DRESDEN — SOKHIEV
A concert with the Staatskapelle Dresden under the baton of Tugan Sokhiev and with Sol Gabetta as a soloist: this is the stuff musical dreams are made of. Especially since Dmitri Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 and Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 are outstanding works of their respective composers, which means the audience is in for an extra-special treat. »Since Beethoven, nothing even similar has been written…!«, the conductor Arthur Nikisch uttered when he gave the first performance of Bruckner’s Seventh in 1884. This work brought the long-awaited breakthrough for the 60-year-old Austrian, cementing his reputation as a great symphonic creator for posterity. Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 was first performed at the Main Hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic in October 1959, by none less than the Leningrad Philharmonic and the legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich under the baton of Evgeny Mravinsky. The work is considered a mirror of two of the composer’s main characteristics: his sarcastic humor and his expressive emotionality.
SOL GABETTA CELLO
SÄCHSISCHE STAATSKAPELLE DRESDEN
TUGAN SOKHIEV CONDUCTOR
Dmitri Shostakovich Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1 in E-flat-major Op. 107
Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E-major WAB 107
7 pm
Semperoper
In cooperation with the Staatskapelle Dresden
PRE-CONCERT TALK
6.15 PM (OPERNKELLER)