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Philip Mackenzie conducts the Mozart Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich‘s ironic response to Stalin’s commentary on his music – his Fifth Symphony – and a dazzling selection of music by Tajikistan’s most important composer, Tolibkhon Shakhidi. Tolibkhon Shakhidi is arguably the most important living Tajik composer. He represents a very rare type of universal master composer who possesses the whole arsenal of contemporary musical language yet uses the richest resources of traditional Eastern music of his region. Shostakovich wrote his Fifth Symphony in an ironic response to an article in Pravda titled “Muddle instead of Music”, presumably penned by Stalin. Its genius lies in its multi-layered meaning. Stalin heard a celebratory Soviet symphony whereas Shostakovich wrote of the ending: ‘It’s as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, “Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing,” and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, “Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.”‘

Lalo’s opera presents us with a Breton Atlantis: the mythical city of Ys, a glorious outpost in the sea off the coast of Brittany, protected by a wall and a gate with only one key. Margared, the daughter of the King, becomes jealous over the marriage of her beloved knight Mylio to her sister Rozenn. She hands the key to the gate to Karnac, an enemy of the city, with disastrous consequences and divine intervention. Audiences of the day delighted in the dramatic plot and ecstatic music, and it was performed hundreds of times across France and internationally over the decade following its premiere in 1888. For this performance, conductor Paul Wingfield makes a welcome return to Chelsea Opera Group after his critically acclaimed performance of La clemenza di Tito in 2023. Concert performance in French with English surtitles 5.15pm: Pre-concert talk by Dr Bruno Bower

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