Dmitri Shostakovich Concerts & Programs

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 The Philharmonic Society opens its 2026-27 season with three of today’s most celebrated classical artists—pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, violinist Lisa Batiashvili, and cellist Gautier Capuçon—joining forces for an electrifying chamber music program. Featuring works by Shostakovich, Debussy, and Dvořák, this rare collaboration brings together extraordinary individual artistry in a performance praised as “a supergroup to savour” ( The Arts Desk ).

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

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 ).