Jean-Guihen Queyras poses with the cello.

Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony Jean-Guihen Queyras performs Shostakovich

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Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique is passionate and melancholy, and a dramatic statement from the composer. Equally intense, Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto is performed by the masterful French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras

Few composers stir our emotions like Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky.

Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony soars directly to the heart. It sways, surges and then suddenly falls away into one of the most devastating endings of the repertoire. And in the hands of conductor Joshua Weilerstein, immensely human.

Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto is no less intense, with restless energy and sharp wit. In his long-awaited Sydney debut, French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras brings the bite that Shostakovich demands.

Gideon Klein’s Partita for Strings is a compelling opener, written while Klein was interned at Theresienstadt.

Presented by Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Event details

Program

KLEIN arr. Saudek Partita for Strings 
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No.1 
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No.6, Pathétique

Artists

Conductor
Joshua Weilerstein
Cello
Jean-Guihen Queyras

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Sydney NSW 2000
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