Czech Philharmonic: Mao Fujita and Semyon Bychkov play Strauss and Shostakovich

It has been 80 years since the end of the Second World War and 50 since the death of Shostakovich. In commemoration of both, we will hear the composer’s Eighth Symphony, performances of which were banned in the Soviet Union because of its bleakness. First, however, making his return to the Rudolfinum in Strauss’s Burleske is Mao Fujita, whom critics call a rising world-class pianist.