Dmitri Shostakovich Concerts & Programs

Program: Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8; Claude Debussy: Piano Trio in G major, L. 5; Antonín Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65 Performers: Lisa Batiashvili (violin); Gautier Capuçon (cello); Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) “Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s piano, Lisa Batiashvili’s violin and Gautier Capuçon’s cello [stitch] their individual strands of sound into a sumptuous fabric” ( The Arts Desk ) during a night of Russian, French, and Czech music. Join three of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s most beloved guest soloists as they come together for a selection of expressive chamber works. Shostakovich’s trio evokes the agitated yearning of teenage romance, while Debussy’s trio brings out the “sweet, sentimental and sugared” ( The New York Times ) aspects of youth. Thibaudet, Batiashvili, and Capuçon close out their recital with a dark, aggressive, and fast-paced Dvořák trio from the era critic Eduard Hanslick deemed “the pinnacle of his career.”

Program: Weinberg , String Quartet no. 2, Op.3; Shostakovich , String Quartet No. 8 in C minor "Malinconia", Op.110; Beethoven , String Quartet no. 7 in F major, "Razumovsky", Op.59 no.1 Performers: Quatuor Danel

Program: Shostakovich , Piano Trio no. 1 in C minor, Op.8; Debussy , Piano Trio in G major; Dvořák , Piano Trio no. 3 in F minor, Op.65 Performers: Jean-Yves Thibaudet , Piano; Lisa Batiashvili , Violin; Gautier Capuçon , Cello

A stellar trio explores the rich inspiration three composers brought to the piano trio. Program: Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 1; Debussy: Piano Trio; Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 3 Performers: Lisa Batiashvili (Violin); Gautier Capuçon (Cello); Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Piano)

Program: Samy Moussa: Elysium; Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64; Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93 Performers: Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal; Rafael Payare (conductor); Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and its brilliant music director Rafael Payare step onto the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage with Shostakovich’s powerful, energetic, and darkly intense Tenth Symphony. Following a performance of Shostakovich’s 10th on Montréal’s 2022 tour, Bachtrack wrote that “Payare’s twitchy baton...dug into the work’s spirit of grim survival against adversity. It was composed in the wake of Stalin’s death, the ferocious second movement often described as a musical portrait of the dictator. Payare took it at a lightning lick, a bundle of energy on the podium.” Samy Moussa’s otherworldly and mythological Elysium opens the program, followed by one of the most treasured violin concertos of all time performed by Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos—whose “talent dazzles from the first notes” ( Bachtrack ).

Individual musicians from the Orchestra perform works by Shostakovich, Beethoven, and Dvořák. Program: Shostakovich: Five Pieces; Beethoven: String Trio in C minor, Op. 9, No. 3; Dvořák: String Quintet No. 2 Performers: Kuan Cheng Lu (Violin); Audrey Wright (Violin); I-Jung Huang (Violin); Na Sun (Violin); Cong Wu (Viola); Tabitha Rhee (Viola); Alexei Yupanqui Gonzales (Cello); John F. Lee (Cello); Timothy Cobb (Bass); Blake Hinson (Bass); Alexander Kiladze (Piano)

Program: Ginastera , Dance suite from the ballet Estancia, Op.8a; Shostakovich , Cello Concerto no. 1 in E flat major, Op.107; Rachmaninov , Symphonic Dances, Op.45 Performers: Carlos Miguel Prieto , Conductor; Yo-Yo Ma , Cello; Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Program: TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23; SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op . 93 Led by its dynamic Music Director Rafael Payare , the San Diego Symphony welcomes celebrated Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov for Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, a cornerstone of the Russian repertoire. Trifonov, who captured both First Prize and the Grand Prix at Moscow’s International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011, brings exceptional virtuosity, lyricism, and insight to this enduring masterpiece. The program concludes with Shostakovich’s powerful Symphony No. 10, a landmark of the Russian symphonic tradition completed in the aftermath of Stalin’s death in 1953. Widely regarded as one of the composer’s greatest achievements, the work bears witness to immense suffering under tyranny while reclaiming the voice of the individual, unfolding a gripping drama of fear, endurance, and defiance.