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Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from St David's Hall, Cardiff: Episode 2: Shostakovich

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Episode 2: Shostakovich

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BBC NOW under Tadaaki Otaka in Shostakovich's Symphony No 5 in D minor, Op 57.

Live from St David's Hall in Cardifff, Tadaaki Otaka conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No 5 in D minor, Op 57.

Live from St. David's Hall in Cardiff

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas

Much-loved Conductor Laureate Tadaaki Otaka returns to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales for a concert embodying a heroic sense of human struggle in the face of overwhelming adversity.

Shostakovich: Symphony no.5 in D minor, Op.57

Sayaka Shoji, violin
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka, conductor

Tadaaki Otaka was Principal Conductor of BBC NOW in the late 1980s and developed the orchestra into the force that it is today. As Conductor Laureate, he's still held in high regard by players and audience alike. Music by Beethoven and Shostakovich embody a heroic sense of human struggle in the face of overwhelming adversity. Beethoven's Coriolan overture embodies all the drama of Shakespeare's play in just 8 minutes. Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony is a social outcast's defiant reply to the state and its 1937 premiere restored his reputation. The lyrical bitter-sweet nostalgia of Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto is played by rising star Sayaka Shoji. Praised for her impressive poise and refined technique by the New York Times, she was recently selected by Nikkei Business as one of the 100 most influential people for Japan.

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Tadaaki Otaka conducts the BBC NOW in music by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Shostakovich

Conductor-laureate Tadaaki Otaka returns to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to lead a performance of music by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Shostakovich

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