Past Event
Friday, August 21, 2015, 8 p.m.
Shostakovich I
700 Prospect Street, San Diego, 92037
Cost: $45 - $65
For this three-concert mini-festival, SummerFest Music Director Cho-Liang Lin has assembled an ensemble of instrumentalists, some of whom knew and worked with Dmitri Shostakovich himself. Working together over the past year, these artists have selected works that represent the composer’s mastery in many forms: string quartets, sonatas for violin, viola, cello and piano as well as trios and octets, showcasing vividly contrasting moods, now whimsical and witty, now intensely emotional then self-questioning. Tonight’s performance opens with Two Pieces for String Octet, two sonatas, for viola and piano and concludes with his playful String Quartet in F Major, Opus 73.