Interview
Neeme Järvi in conversation with Stanley Dodds
Neeme Järvi conducts Strauss’s “Don Juan” and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14
Shostakovitch’s 14th Symphony is a highly unusual work. With frugal musical forces, it takes death as its theme. It forgoes all pathos yet is all the more haunting because of this. In contrast, this concert with Neeme Järvi also includes Richard Stauss’s Don Juan and Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini, compositions which also deal with death, however in both cases it is combined with a highly luxurious orchestration.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Neeme Järvi
Anatoli Kotcherga
Olga Mykytenko
© 2010 Berlin Phil Media GmbH
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