Oh To Believe in Another World

Oh To Believe in Another World | William Kentridge
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony NO. 10

Date: 30 October
Time: 20:00
Venue: NIZAMI CINEMA CENTRE
Duration: approx. 2 hours, with one intermission
Age restriction: 18+ // Guests aged 16+ are permitted when accompanied by a parent or guardian

Kentridge’s Oh To Believe in Another World was conceived to accompany a live performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, bringing music, history and the visual arts into a single theatrical space.

Among the figures inhabiting Kentridge’s visual world, Elmira Nazirova holds particular significance: Shostakovich was in intense correspondence with her while composing the symphony.

The first half brings Kentridge’s film together with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, performed by the BIAF Festival Orchestra under Dmitry Sitkovetsky.

In the second half, Nazirova moves beyond Kentridge’s visual world to appear in a different role — as a composer. Farhad Badalbeyli joins the BIAF Festival Orchestra for the Concerto on Arabian Themes for Piano and Orchestra by Fikret Amirov and Elmira Nazirova, conducted by Fuad Ibrahimov. Nazirova thus provides the link between Shostakovich’s Tenth and the Azerbaijani musical tradition of the second half.

Programme

PART I

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

Oh To Believe in Another World

Film by William Kentridge, presented with a live performance of

Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93

BIAF Festival Orchestra

Dmitry Sitkovetsky — conductor

PART II

FIKRET AMIROV / ELMIRA NAZIROVA

Concerto on Arabian Themes for Piano and Orchestra

Farhad Badalbeyli — piano