The Music Pages | March 2009


A Midsummer Night’s Dream A midsummer night. Madness. Mayhem. Music. The new Principal Conductor of Sydney Symphony Vladimir Ashkenazy opens the 2009 season with a magical concoction: Mendelssohn in the full flight of genius and Shakespeare at his comic best. February 25-28: Sydney Opera House March 2: Sydney Opera House Ashkenazy Conducts Shostakovich Just months after Stalin’s death in 1953 Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony had its Moscow premiere. A young Vladimir Ashkenazy was there. It was an event, he says, and an incredible success. Even today it’s regarded by many as Shostakovich’s finest symphony and Ashkenazy himself considers it ‘the most complete’ of the symphonies – powerful and complex. March 5-7: Sydney Opera House www.vladimirashkenazy.com
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