Oh to Believe in Another World

In Distant Light, Pēteris Vasks writes music as an act of fragile faith. For solo violin and strings, a slowly unfolding space emerges, one in which hope becomes tangible without offering certainty. Lorenzo Gatto sustains this stillness with a tone that captures shimmering light while holding onto tension. In stark contrast stands Dmitri Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony: an uncompromising confrontation with power, fear and inner rage. Under the baton of Eivind Aadland, the evening becomes an intense journey between fragility and resistance.

Programma

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Pēteris Vasks

Distant Light

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Dmitry Shostakovich

Symphony no. 10, op. 93

20e eeuw · Orchestral

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William Kentridge

Screening of the film "Oh To Believe In Another World" (2022)

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