Andris Nelsons | Baiba Skride

Programme

Dmitri Shostakovich
Concerto for violin and orchestra No. 2 op.129

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 9 in E-flat major op.70

Andris Nelsons, Conductor

Baiba Skride, Violin

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

about the programme

Programme changes are a daily occurrence in times of corona, but fresh ideas also bring great surprises. One of them is Shostakovich’s Second Violin Concerto, the small forces of which make it virtually tailored to covid conditions. The soloist is Baiba Skride, a Latvian violinist of international stature. Composed for David Oistrakh, the concerto is dominated by the dark theme of individual vs society, struggle vs assertion – a theme that pervades Shostakovich’s late works as a whole. Despite the extreme reduction of resources, the result was a melancholy concerto with moving violin cantilenas and pounding march-like orchestral passages. Andris Nelsons contrasts this work with the Ninth Symphony, in which Shostakovich honoured the memory of the victims of World War II while refusing to apotheosize Stalin’s victory. The dictator never forgave him.

concert photos

Baiba Skride

Baiba Skride

Andris Nelsons

Baiba Skride

Andris Nelsons

Baiba Skride & Andris Nelsons

Andris Nelsons

Andris Nelsons

impressions from the rehearsals

Andris Nelsons & Baiba Skride with the BRSO at Gasteig

Andris Nelsons

Baiba Skride

Baiba Skride

Andris Nelsons

Michael Friedrich (Violin)

Baiba Skride

Baiba Skride

Andris Nelsons

Andris Nelsons & Baiba Skride