Perhaps sensing that potential ticket-buyers may be scratching their heads, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester supplies the following gloss on this evening’s program. “To grasp the horror that he suffered under Soviet rule, Dmitri Shostakovich needed some time after Stalin’s death: He wrote the first harsh, devastating movements of his Tenth Symphony in the seclusion of his dacha on the Baltic Sea and completed this highly political work with an uncompromising final section in Moscow. In his ‘Anthem,’ Davóne Tines, too, raises his voice against the racism and capitalist ideals of US society. Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings—as the musical embodiment of melancholy—opens a musical door to these still topical concerns.” The full listing attributes the new piece—long form, Concerto No. 2: Anthem for Bass-baritone and Orchestra—not to Tines alone but to a foursome that also includes the front-line composers Michael Schachter, Caroline Shaw, and Tyshawn Sorey. Teasing out who wrote what may be beside the point. The objective is the overarching message, conceived in the mind of the singer and delivered in his prophetic voice. Daniele Rustioni conducts. —Matthew Gurewitsch