Vivi Vassileva © Julia Wesely
Junge Deutsche Philharmonie / Vassileva / Kochanovsky
Saturday
4
October
2025
19:30
Großer Saal
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Revolution and primeval times
In contrast to Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, Dvořák and Mahler, Dmitri Shostakovich wrote far more than nine symphonies. His 11th Symphony, which deals critically with the history of Russia, bears the subtitle »The Year 1905«. After the end of Stalin's reign of terror, he used it in 1957, on the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution, to commemorate the workers' demonstration in front of the Tsar's palace in St. Petersburg, which was violently suppressed. In the fourth movement, he finally looks to the future with hope. Stanislav Kochanovsky, who was born in St. Petersburg himself, conducts the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie at the concert. Avner Dorman's composition »Frozen in time«, in which Vivi Vassileva plays instruments such as the African djembe, the Arabic darbuka and a kind of cowbell alongside countless drums, cymbals and mallet instruments, is about the prehistory of the earth - a musical journey to the prehistoric continents, with echoes of Indonesian gamelan orchestras and American jazz.