Budapest Festival Orchestra
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Marin Alsop was ten years old when she first realised that she wanted to become a conductor. She then went on to make history in 2013 as the first woman to conduct the Last Night of the Proms. She will also enter the BFO's annals as the first female to lead the ensemble.
"Most of my symphonies are tombstones,” said Shostakovich. The clamour of battle in his Symphony No. 7 is no mere figment of the imagination: it brings together the horrors of the siege of Leningrad, the atrocities wrought by dictators, the tears and pain and false nostalgia in a synthesis of gravity and character. The work's 1942 Leningrad première was a blood-curling affair. The emaciated musicians performing it were not much more than skin and bones, and the conductor had to fetch the percussionist from the morgue, where he had accidentally been taken while still alive. Nevertheless, the symphony was played. It was broadcast on the radio and echoed from the city's loudspeakers at full blast, so that the Germans could hear it too: Leningrad lived.
Presented by: Budapest Festival Orchestra
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Conductor:
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Marin Alsop
Featuring:
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violinAlina Pogostkina
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