An evening featuring Russian classical music, with Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, or Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2, for which French pianist Lucas Debargue will serve as the soloist. The second half of the concert will see a performance of one of the most enigmatic compositions of the 20th century, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5. Some believed that with this piece Shostakovich had stepped down the rocky road of socialist realism, others emphasized the composition's nuanced and brutally accurate irony, signalling that Shostakovich's works had never been in service of the system. Regardless of whether we accept either argument, Symphony No. 5 is one of the most exciting orchestral compositions of the 20th century.