Teodor Currentzis / Yuja Wang

Orchestra e Coro
dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
conductor Teodor Currentzis
pianoforteYuja Wang
basso Alexey Tikhomirov
chorusmaster Andrea Secchi

Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2
Šostakovič Symphony No. 13 “Babi Yar”

Two complementary visions of 20th-century Russia. Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 is a true challenge — a work marked by biting irony, sharp-edged sarcasm, and pianistic writing of staggering difficulty, here mastered by the incomparable Yuja Wang.

Then, silence becomes deafening in Shostakovich’s Babi Yar Symphony — not merely music, but an act of moral courage, a powerful denunciation of antisemitism and tyranny.

Leading this descent into the abysses of the twentieth century is Teodor Currentzis, a visionary and uncompromising conductor.