City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
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Andris Nelsons
conductor
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Baiba Skride
violin
Violin Concerto No. 1 “Offertorium”
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 “Leningrad”
The artistry of violinist Gidon Kremer inspired Sofia Gubaidulina to compose her First Violin Concerto at the end of the 1970s. When Kremer touches the strings, she thought, all of his energy flows into the sounds: “the offering of the musician ias he abandons himself to the tone.” Gubaidulina thus conceived of her concerto as a sacred act, an “Offertorium,” which also refers to another famous “Musical Offering”: the work is based on a transformation of the famous “thema regium” (“king’s theme”) on which Johann Sebastian Bach improvised at the court of Frederick the Great. Andris Nelsons will combine Gubaidulina’s “Offertorium,” the work that brought her overnight fame in the West, with the stirring “Leningrad Symphony” of her mentor Dmitri Shostakovich. Composed in the middle of the Second World War, during the German army’s siegeof the city, the music reflects this catastrophic event but at the end celebrates the triumph of “humanity over tyranny.”
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