Schumann & Shostakovich with Schiff

Wed 8 Oct 7:30pm at Symphony Hall

Heinrich Schiff credit Klaus Rudolph

High romance and biting sarcasm – the superb Austrian cellist and conductor Heinrich Schiff makes a welcome return to the CBSO with a programme of extremes. Kurt Weill’s Threepenny Opera Suite is the ultimate in musical irony, irresistibly sarcastic, shamelessly sleazy and unforgettably tuneful. In Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto, though, the satire has teeth – it’s a punchy political drama driven by profound emotion. Schiff himself performs the solo part, before taking the podium to conduct Schumann’s noblest symphony – a world of romantic dreams and classical beauty, a million miles from the 20th century.

£9.50, £13.50, £17, £20.50, £23.50, £28, £32, £37, £39.50

Heinrich Schiff – conductor / cello
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 28’
Weill: Threepenny Opera – Suite 20’
Schumann: Symphony No. 2 36’

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