An interesting concert pairing features a Shostakovich concerto from 1948 in the first half of the evening, followed in the second half by an ecclesiastical oratorio from the third decade of the 19th century. Soloist for the evening is Sergei Krylov, one of the finest interpreters of the Russian repertoire and a former student of Leonid Kogan and Salvatore Accardo. Born in 1970, Krylov has lived since 1989 in Cremona, Italy, home of the Stradivarius violins, where he has been artistic director o...f the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra since 2009. He has performed, among others, with the Staatskapelle Dresden, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Academica Salzburg and the NHK Symphony Orchestra. His friendship with the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, with whom he performed on numerous occasions, had a profound influence on his personality and art. The Russian violinist will perform a work by Shostakovich which the composer dedicated to David Oistrakh, and which was premièred only 7-8 years after its completion, following the death of Stalin. Contrary to the prescriptions of the Zhdanov decree in the period of severe Soviet censorship, it is a highly complex, large-scale composition containing both musically light and serious sections. The work to be heard in the second half of the evening is the fifth of Schubert’s six Latin masses. The mass, which assumed its final form in 1826 and thus counts as one of the composer’s late works (although he was still only 29 years old at the time of its composition), is often overshadowed by his other large-scale work in this genre, the Mass in E-flat major. “The mass is good, but is not written in the style favoured by the emperor,” was the judgement of the work when Schubert applied for the post of assistant composer to the imperial court in Vienna. The fact that the mass still managed to assume its deserved place in the repertoire was largely thanks to Johannes Brahms, who performed movements from the work in 1863 and 1874.
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