Donor Rehearsal: Gražinytė-Tyla Leads Shostakovich, Elgar & Britten

Julia Hagen (an “exceptional musical talent,” according to Berlin’s Tagesspiegel ) is the soloist in Elgar’s elegiac Cello Concerto, a work memorializing the lost lives and a world forever changed by World War I. Shostakovich’s 14th Symphony conveys the plight of four suffering artists through the expressive power found of its superb text-setting and dramatic intensity. Roiling waves and emotional turmoil are vividly depicted in the Four Sea Interludes from Britten’s Peter Grimes.