Written as Stalin’s Great Terror campaign made music a matter of life and death for Soviet composers, Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony is a searing search for hope in a time of darkness and oppression. Fear and vulnerability also hover over Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto, its hushed laments and demonic dissonances mirroring the composer’s anguish upon his imminent return to the Soviet Union.

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Program
Nina Shekhar: Lumina
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5

Artists
David Danzmayr, Conductor
Vadim Gluzman, Violin