The season culminates with a three-week survey of the artistic life of Benjamin Britten. This first installment juxtaposes Britten with one of his closest contemporaries and compeers, Dmitri Shostakovich. Britten met Shostakovich in 1960, commencing a musical kinship that both composers would cherish until their deaths, one year apart the following decade; despite the geographic and political distance of the Cold War, the two composers’ music shared a common psychological and emotional depth. The “superbly accomplished” Janine Jansen, praised for her “tone of rapt aspiration and furious abandon” (The Telegraph), returns to the SFS in Shostakovich’s haunting First Violin Concerto.
Conductor/Performers
conductor
Janine Jansen
violin
San Francisco Symphony
Program
Shostakovich
Violin Concerto No. 1
Britten
Excerpts from The Prince of the Pagodas
Concert: Approx. 1h 40m
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Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 2:00pm
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