Special Concert International Shostakovich Festival Gohrisch
gespielte Werke
Dmitri Shostakovich
- Violinkonzert Nr. 2 cis-Moll op. 129
- Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93
Mitwirkende
- Philippe Jordan Conductor
- Isabelle Faust Violin
On the eve of the International Shostakovich Days, the Staatskapelle is exploring two key works by the Russian composer. Written for David Oistrakh in 1967, the Second Violin Concerto is a work full of inner tension that captivates with its austere tonal language and chamber music-like density. The Tenth Symphony, composed in 1953 shortly after Stalin’s death, is one of the most discussed orchestral pieces of the 20th century. Here Shostakovich truly makes his mark: featuring his musical monogram – the famous DSCH motif (i.e. D-Eb-C-B) – this work is also an existential cri de coeur. The Tenth has been interpreted as a denunciation of Stalinism, particularly the second movement, which is seen as a savage portrayal of the brutal dictator.
- Wednesday24.6.2620:00 UhrKulturpalast DresdenTicket price:
10 – 38 €
Philippe Jordan
Philippe Jordan, who comes from a renowned Swiss family of artists, is today one of the most significant and established conductors of his generation. His international career has taken him to the world’s leading opera houses, festivals and concert halls. At the start of the 2027/28 season, he will take up the post of Music Director of the Orchestre National de France.
From September 2020 to June 2025, Jordan was Music Director of the Vienna State Opera. During this time, he conducted numerous outstanding new productions, including Madama Butterfly, Parsifal, Macbeth, Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Tristan und Isolde, Salome and Il Trittico. He placed particular artistic emphasis on Mozart’s entirely new Da Ponte cycle. In his final season, he conducted new productions of Don Carlo and Tannhäuser, as well as revivals of the Mozart cycle and Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung.
In the summer of 2025, Philippe Jordan returned to the Salzburg Festival, where he once again conducted *Macbeth*. This will be followed in the autumn of 2025 by a guest appearance at the Vienna State Opera with *Der Rosenkavalier* as part of a tour of Japan. Further concert engagements this season take him to the Orchestre National de France, the Opéra de Paris, La Scala in Milan, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Bamberg Symphony, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, as well as to the USA, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. In Asia, he will be making guest appearances with the Seoul Philharmonic, the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the NHK Symphony Orchestra.
Isabelle Faust
Isabelle Faust captivates her listeners through her insightful and faithful interpretations, based on a thorough knowledge of the historical context of the works as well as her attention to current scholarship.
At an early age, Isabelle Faust won the prestigious Leopold Mozart and Paganini competitions and was soon invited to appear with the world's leading orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. 2016 marks her first year as Artistic Partner for the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
Isabelle Faust performs a wide-ranging repertoire, from Johann Sebastian Bach all the way through to contemporary composers such as György Ligeti, Helmut Lachenmann and Jörg Widmann. To highlight this versatility, in addition to her mastery of the great symphonic violin concertos, Isabelle Faust also performs works such as Kurtág's »Kafka Fragments« with the soprano Anna Prohaska, or Schubert’s octet on historical instruments. She will premiere several new works for violin and orchestra during the next seasons, including concerti by the composers Ondrej Adamek, Marco Stroppa, Oscar Strasnoy and Beat Furrer.
