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Nicola Benedetti plays Brahms | Philharmonia Orchestra

When
Sunday April 24, 2022 at 19:30
Where
Royal Festival Hall, London
Tickets
£13 – £65; multi-buy offer available; under 18s and concessions discounts available via the box office; student tickets for £8 available via studentpulselondon.co.uk one month before the concert (limited availability)
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  1. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major Op 77 - Johannes Brahms
  2. Symphony No 7 in C, 'Leningrad' Op 60 - Dmitry Shostakovich

Captivating violinist Nicola Benedetti joins the Philharmonia and Santtu, our new Principal Conductor, to perform a pinnacle of the violin repertoire.

The first movement of Brahms’s Violin Concerto brims with melodies of such spontaneity and freshness that they almost feel improvised. The second opens with a gorgeously serene theme, played by the oboe and then taken up by the violin. And the third has a fiery Hungarian flavour, demanding the perfect balance of precision and freedom, energy and expressiveness from the soloist.

The story of Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony is entwined with the 900-day siege of Leningrad (now St Petersburg) by Nazi forces. Half a million people died in the siege, and this powerful piece became a testament to them and a symbol of resistance to fascism and tyranny. At the heart of the first movement is a repeated snare-drum motif that grows ever louder and more oppressive. But Shostakovich never intended his music to be a literal representation of war – there’s beauty as well as suffering, light as well as terrible darkness, in this musical monument to the human spirit.


Venue
Royal Festival Hall
Belvedere Road
London
London
SE1 8XX
England


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