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91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2018-19 Season Rafael Payare conducts Shostakovich Symphony No 5

91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Payare conducts Shostakovich Symphony No 5
19:30 Fri 7 Dec 2018 Barbican, London
Love and death collide with wit and irreverence in a programme of contemporary classics, which has one of the century’s most powerful symphonies at its heart.
Love and death collide with wit and irreverence in a programme of contemporary classics, which has one of the century’s most powerful symphonies at its heart.

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Beauty, eroticism and tenderness all jostle for supremacy in Berg’s exquisite Seven Early Songs, performed here by the distinguished German soprano Dorothea Roschmann, who makes her much-anticipated debut with the 91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra. Strauss’s musical portrait of the mischievous folk-hero Till Eulenspiegel makes a lively opener, while Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony – a bold, bitter work of musical protest – reveals the darker side of the age. Dynamic young conductor Rafael Payare, one of the fastest rising stars of the orchestral world, directs.