9 Sep 2022

SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture Op 96

From Music Alive, 8:02 pm on 9 September 2022
Gemma New conducting NZSO in Ravel's Bolero at the 75th Jubilee Concert

Gemma New conducting NZSO in Ravel's Bolero at the 75th Jubilee Concert Photo: NZSO/Latitude Creative

Performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gemma New.

This short, buoyant overture makes an irresistible curtain-raiser. Shostakovich composed it in 1954 for a concert at the Bolshoi Theatre celebrating the thirty-seventh anniversary of the October Revolution.

Recorded 9 September 2022, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ Concert

Producer: David McCaw

Sound Engineer: Darryl Stack