Nicolas Altstaedt & Münchener Kammerorchester Things have come full circle between Sjostakovitsj, Haydn and Schubert

Nicolas Altstaedt has found a perfect match in the Munich Chamber Orchestra.

Just as idiosyncratic partners in crime with whom he can play, conduct and with whom he has created a programme that ingeniously interlocks.

Shostakovich's music seems to exist in a grey vacuum. Minor, major, angry, happy, sincere, ironic: it all seems the same. That doesn't make the music any less exciting - on the contrary, because you're never really sure what state you're in. The echo of Haydn still resonates hundreds of years later in the form of the music, but that's where it ends. Haydn's music is not grey, rather black and white. Schubert was just as clear, but where with Haydn you still know where you're going to be in a few minutes, Schubert can turn left at full speed at any moment. And so the circle to Shostakovich is complete.