Portrait of a Dictator

Only eight months after the death of the tyrant ruler Joseph Stalin, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony premiered in Leningrad. The brutal second movement of the symphony, which recalls the dictatorship, paints as realistic a picture of the decades of hatred and their main architects as the censorship of the time would allow.

The Third Piano Concerto by Sergei Prokofiev, who fled the Russian Revolution, was the composer’s breakthrough work in the United States. Anton Gerzenberg, the First Prize winner of the 15th Concours Géza Anda in Zurich, interprets a concerto of sleek neoclassicism, dreamscapes, mocking sarcasm and the highest peaks of piano artistry.

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Duration about 2 h (incl. intermission)

Tickets 29 € normal/ 24 € pensioner / 16 € student, unemployed, child (3–17 yrs)
Free entry to the concert for Kaikukortti holders (limited amount, must be purchased in advance from Oulu10 service point).

Prices include service fee. Order fee 2 €/order when bought from Ticketmaster shops or 1,50 €/order when bought from Ticketmaster online shop will be added, excluding tickets purchased at Madetoja Hall ticket booth and Kaikukortti-tickets.

Head start at Restaurant Preludi at 18:30. Discussion of the forthcoming concert.