For over 20 years, the concerts given by the Robert Schumann University Symphony Orchestra – comprising over 80 students of various nationalities – have been a highlight of the winter term.
Dmitri Shostakovich’s dramatic 11th Symphony forms the centrepiece of this extraordinary concert programme. Shostakovich draws on the events of the pre-revolutionary year 1905 in St Petersburg in a highly evocative manner. He entrusted his true message to the music and, through this symphony, sent a clear message against war and violence.
Symphony Orchestra of the Robert Schumann University of Music, Düsseldorf; Valentin Ruckebier, bass; Rüdiger Bohn, conductor
Wendi Liu: *Within Grey*; Richard Strauss: ‘Two Larger Songs’ for low voice and orchestra, Op. 44; Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11, Op. 103 ‘The Year 1905’ (Source: Tonhalle Düsseldorf)
