Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski
29./30./31. March 2009
Semperoper

Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in D major (for the left hand)
Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Symphony No. 7 in C major, Opus 60 «Leningrad»

Reflections on the war
Shostakovich’s «Leningrad Symphony», composed during that city’s siege in World War II, has long been interpreted as portraying the socialist victory over Hitler’s Germany. Vladimir Jurowski aims to re-interpret this work, in a concert including Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the left hand – written for the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in World War I.