»Shostakovich in full perfection«: the press was just as enthusiastic about Anna Vinnitskaya’s latest recording of the Russian composer’s two piano concertos as the ECHO Klassik jury. With the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the elective Hamburg resident now scintillates with Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2, which exudes an astonishing lightness for the composer and which has remained one of his most popular concertos to this day. The concerto was Shostakovich’s nineteenth birthday gift to his son Maxim, who also premiered the work in 1957. On the podium in the Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall on this evening is the Greek conductor and global sensation Constantinos  Carydis. For this opening concert in the three-part Kammerphilharmonie series, Carydis also takes the audience to the Prague of Mozart’s time, where the great composer wrote his famous opera »Don Giovanni« and, of course, his »Prague« Symphony. read less