Juraj Valčuha & Gil Shaham
March 27, 29 & 30, 2025
Overview
The success of Brahms’s sole Violin Concerto was hard-won, but now it's impossible to imagine the Romantic violin repertoire without it. Juraj Valčuha and Gil Shaham return for a luminous reading of the ultimate sleeper hit. Shostakovich’s intensely passionate, profoundly ambivalent Symphony No. 10 brims over with real-life references—ranging from a portrait of the late Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to musically coded proxies for the composer himself and the object of his hopeless midlife crush.
Sponsors
Juraj Valčuha’s appearance is supported by the Louise M. Davies Guest Conductor Fund.
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