Music that seems to speak of the oppressive atmosphere of the Soviet Union – centering around Shostakovich’s famous Chamber Symphony, a requiem for himself.
Thu. 18.9.2025
19:30, Pantheon Theatre
Giorgi Gigashvili & East-West Chamber Orchestra
- Orchestra, Piano
- € 38
Giorgi Gigashvili © Beethovenfest Bonn 
East-West Chamber Orchestra © Evgeny Evtyukhov 
Nicolas Dautricourt © Caroline Bettencourt
Contributors
- East-West Chamber Orchestra
- Giorgi Gigashvili piano
- Nicolas Dautricourt violin
- Rostislav Krimer conductor
Programme
Mieczysław Weinberg
Chamber Symphony No. 2 op. 147
Chamber Symphony No. 2 op. 147
Galina Ustvolskaya
Concerto for Piano, Strings and Timpani
Erkki-Sven Tüür
»Leaving behind« for Piano and Strings (premiere)
»Leaving behind« for Piano and Strings (premiere)
Dmitri Shostakovich
Chamber Symphony for Strings and Timpani in C Minor op. 110a, arr. by Abram Stasewitsch
Lev Abeliovitch
Aria for Violin and Chamber Orchestra
18:45, Pantheon Lounge
Pre-concert talk (in German) with Michael Struck-Schloen, composer Erkki-Sven Tüür and conductor Rostislav Krimer
Description
Rostislav Krimer sees his East-West Chamber Orchestra as a forum for international communication and understanding. With Georgian pianist Giorgi Gigashvili, audience favourite at the 2024 Beethovenfest, he brings stirring music from the former Soviet Union to the Pantheon Theatre. The prominent Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür has written a new work about everything refugees have to leave behind, dedicated to the East-West Chamber Orchestra and Rostislav Krimer.
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