Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen / Asmik Grigorian / Matthias Goerne / Tarmo Peltokoski

The programme features Dmitri Shostakovich’s »Symphony No. 14«, which brought the duo headline acclaim back in 2019. They caused something of a sensation – not only in Salzburg with the Vienna Philharmonic but in Hamburg too with the Ensemble Resonanz. Now they return to the Elbphilharmonie stage with this extraordinary work. Its eleven movements, with a changing cast of singers, form a musical protest against mortality – an impressive dance with death in which Asmik Grigorian and Matthias Goerne once again demonstrate their deep emotionality and enormously broad range of expression. They are accompanied by the agile Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, conducted by Tarmo Peltokoski, who begins the evening’s proceedings with Shostakovich’s famous »Chamber Symphony«. The orchestra, a long-standing audience favourite in Hamburg, and the young Finnish star conductor treat the audience to this seminal work by the anti-fascist composer. The »Chamber Symphony«, an arrangement of his » String Quartet No. 8«, is considered an aural confession of the suppressed artist.