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One of the most important roles of symphony orchestras the world over is to share their knowledge and enthusiasm with new generations of musicians. Each year since 2009, nearly 100 young people from music schools around Iceland have gathered together under the aegis of the ISO to form the Iceland Symphony Youth Orchestra, with splendid results. Eivind Aadland, a long-time collaborator with the ISO, conducts the Youth Orchestra for the first time.

Shostakovich's riveting Symphony no. 10 was written shortly after the death of Joseph Stalin, with whom the composer had an often tense relationship. The work is pensive and introspective at times and then, at others, breaks out in bursts of satire and even rage. Shostakovich is quoted in one source as stating that the symphony is a reflection of the Stalin era and that the manic second movement is “a musical portrait of Stalin himself.”

The Iceland Symphony Youth Orchestra is part of the ISO's ambitious education programme.

PROGRAMME
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony no. 10

CONDUCTOR
Eivind Aadland