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2022-23 BSO Season

Andris Nelsons conducts Beethoven and Shostakovich with Mitsuko Uchida, piano

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Japanese pianist Mitsuko Uchida joins Andris Nelsons and the BSO for Ludwig van Beethoven’s monumental Emperor piano concerto. Criticism in the Soviet press of Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District put him in a precarious position with Soviet authorities. His response was the powerful and outwardly triumphant Fifth Symphony.

Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 7:30pm EDT (Past)

Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 1:30pm EDT (Past)

The Walter Piston Society Concert

Sat, Oct 29, 2022, 8:00pm EDT (Past)

Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 2:00pm EDT (Past)

The Norman V. and Ellen B. Ballou Memorial Concert

Performance Details

Oct 29, 2022, 8:00pm EDT

The Norman V. and Ellen B. Ballou Memorial Concert

The Walter Piston Society Concert

Featuring

Program Notes & Works

Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat, Opus 73, Emperor

Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven brought a bold and singular new voice to Western music, and there is no better example than the Emperor Concerto.

Symphony No. 5

Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Shostakovich responded to threatening criticism in the Soviet press with his dramatic, triumphant Symphony No. 5, completed quickly in spring 1937 and destined for both official acceptance and long-lasting public success.