Berliner Philharmoniker
Daniele Gatti conductor
Igor Stravinsky
Apollon musagète (revised version from 1947)
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5 D minor, op. 47
Apollon musagète (revised version from 1947)
Symphony No. 5 D minor, op. 47
Philharmonie
Philharmonie
Philharmonie
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On this programme you will experience two great Russian composers flirting with earlier epochs: Igor Stravinsky combines in his ballet Apollon musagète the cheerful light atmosphere of the classical era with the easy-going, urban lifestyle of the 1920s. Dmitri Shostakovich, on the other hand, composed his Fifth Symphony in 19th-century aesthetics of sound, ostensibly as a homage to socialism. But his music has a certain ambiguity: “The rejoicing is forced under threat,” the composer wrote. “One would have to be a complete fool not to hear that.”