The program will center around the grand Suite on poems by Michelangelo Buonarroti, composed shortly before Shostakovich's death for the 500th anniversary of the Florentine artist's birth.
This work, which the composer considered his 16th and final symphony, will be preceded by Modest Mussorgsky's visionary cycle, Sans Soleil (Sunless), which Shostakovich admired.
Swiss musicologist Mathilde Reichler, a specialist in the Russian repertoire, will present this recital.