SHOSTAKOVICH DMITRI

(CD) VIOLIN CONCERTOS 1,2
"Similar feelings (soaring spontaneity and deeply perceptive intelligence) attend his readings of the Shostakovich concertos - added to which is my growing certainty that this version of No.I (accompanied by the great Mravinsky) is his finest. ... It was with Mravinsky and the Leningrad that Oistrakh (as dedicatee) gave the first performance ... Oistrakh plays as impeccably as ever, and the Leningrad Philharmonic gives admirably vital support" (Op.126) "taken as a whole, this is a most rewarding work and gets a most eloquence performance f...
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(CD) SONATA FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO, OP. 134 - SONATA FOR VIOLA AND PIANO, OP.147
"Three greats of Russian musicianship in modern recordings, including Shostakovich's final work, published posthumously" (MusicalMerit) "Make your choice based on sound, cost, and availability, and you can't go wrong" (MusicWeb) "some digital restoration has been accomplished ...very quiet background, clean sound at peak levels, reduced audience noise" (Gramophone). (From the publisher)...
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(CD) ARCANUM
Armenian-American violist Kim Kashkashian, one of the major musical voices of ECM New Series, introduces a new duo with Russian composer-pianist Lera Auerbach. Their first recording together features Auerbach's viola and piano version of Dmitri Shostakovich's often playful 24 Preludes op. 34, and Auerbach's own, darker, sonata for viola and piano, Arcanum. Lera Auerbach says, "Arcanum means 'mysterious knowledge', and I was fascinated by the inner voice within each of us, some may call it perhaps intuition, some maybe guided meditation, bu...
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ΝΤΜΙΤΡΙ ΣΟΣΤΑΚΟΒΙΤΣ
(...) Το βιβλίο περιέχει κάθε είδους κείμενα, με σημασία που ποικίλλει από αποσπάσματα σπουδαίων άρθρων μέχρι σύντομες σημειώσεις πάνω σε ζητήματα της επικαιρότητας. Έχουν ταξινομηθεί, ανεξάρτητα από τη σπουδαιότητά τους, με αυστηρά χρονολογική σειρά, σύμφωνα με το έτος και (εκτός από ελάχιστες εξαιρέσεις) την ημερομηνία που δημοσιεύτηκαν. Αυτή η αρχή δεν είναι αυστηρά επιστημονική, αλλά υπηρετεί τον κύριο σκοπό του βιβλίου: να παρουσιάσει τα λόγια του συνθέτη στην φυσική χρονική ακολουθία τους. Πρέπει να επισημανθεί ότι το βιβλίο αυτό δεν...
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(2CD) 24 PRELUDES AND FUGUES Op. 87
In time for Dmitri Shostakovich's 100th birthday on September 25, ECM reissues Keith Jarrett's recording of the 24 Preludes and Fugues for piano. Originally recorded in 1991 it counts amongst the most significant of Jarrett's interpretations of music from the 'classical' tradition. As the pianist said at the time, "When I first saw these pieces in a music shop, I knew I wanted to play them. I recognised the language. But when I started playing them, they were so close to me that I knew I had to record them." He began including Shostakovich...
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(3-CD SET) GENNADY ROZHDESTVENSKY CONDUCTS SHOSTAKOVICH
Born in Moscow on 4 May 1931, Gennady Rozhdestvensky stands as one of the Russia's greatest conductors. Having studied at the city's conservatoire, he later became associated with orchestras including the Bolshoi and Western ensembles such as the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic. He was a regular frequenter of the Proms, a man with an extensive, complex discography who was as much at home in the opera and ballet as in the symphony and concerto. Here the maestro conducts an all-Shostakovich programme, beginning with the towering 'Leningrad' sy...
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(CD) FESTIVE OVERTURE OPUS 96 - SYMPHONY NO.5 IN D MINOR, OPUS 47
DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975) 1. Festive Overture, op. 96 SYMPHONY NO. 5 IN D MINOR, OP. 47 2. I. Moderato 3. II. Allegretto 4. III. Largo 5. IV. Allegro non troppo The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) Digitally recorded in July 1994 at C.T.S. Studios, London...
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(CD) CELLO CONCERTOS 1 AND 2
Dmitri Shostakovich spent 20 years composing under the threatening and often stifling influence of Stalin's regime. The dictator's death in March 1953 (on the same day as Sergei Prokofiev's) led to a feeling of liberation that spread throughout the Soviet Union; this newfound freedom began to manifest itself in Shostakovich's music. The first movement of Cello Concerto No.1 (1959) is based on the composer's own DSCH motif and is succeeded by a folk-infused second movement, followed by a substantial cadenza for the soloist and an exhilarat...
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(CD) MICHELANGELO SUITE
By the time Shostakovich came to write his final and, in the event, longest song cycle in the 1974, he was mortally ill from the heart disease that would kill him the following year. His thought and music, from which death had never been far, had turned ineluctably to the transience and shortcomings of the human condition, expressed with most bitter eloquence in the song-cycle-style Fourteenth Symphony which through settings of Lorca and Rilke even hints at the welcome release of suicide. Infirmity had reduced his movement to a bare minimu...
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(CD) GIDON KREMER, THE KREMERATA BALTICA
In its 10th year, chamber orchestra Kremerata Baltica (founded 1997) plays the adagio of Gustav Mahler’s unfinished 10th Symphony, as well as the 14th Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich - also a ‘late work’- , with its settings of poetry by Garci'a Lorca, Apollinaire and Rilke. Both pieces were written in times of personal crises. Under the musical direction of Gidon Kremer, the orchestra brings forth both the pain and the beauty of these exceptional compositions. [Recorded 2001 and 2004]...
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(10-CD SET) SYMPHONIES, CONCERTOS, PIANO WORKS, CHAMBER MUSIC
Symphony No. 5 in D minor op. 47 [New York Philharmonic Orchestra - Dimitri Mitropoulos] Symphony No. 7 in C major op. 60 [Berliner Philharmoniker - Sergiu Celibidache] Symphony No. 9 in E-flat major op. 70 [Berliner Philharmoniker - Sergiu Celibidache] Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings in C minor op. 35 [Dmitry Shostakovich, piano - Ludovic Vaillant, trumpet - Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise - Andre Cluytens] Symphony No. 10 in E minor op. 93 [Berliner Philharmoniker - Sergiu Celibidache] Violin Concerto No. 1 in A...
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(CD) PIANO CONCERTOS
One of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century, Dmitri Shostakovich's output includes symphonies, concertos, operas and film scores, among others. With his career constantly hampered by political intervention and the social pressures of Stalin's Soviet Union, the Russian Maestro's works are now considered to go some way to providing a chronicle of life during the period. This disc includes the two Piano Concertos; the first was originally intended to be a concerto for trumpet, but during the composition process the piano was adde...
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(CD) SYMPHONY NO. 10 IN E MINOR, OPUS 93 - EXCERPT FROM THE GADFLY SUITE OPUS 97
Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Opus 93 Excerpt from The Gadfly Suite Opus 97...
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(2CD) STRING QUARTETS
String Quartet No.1 in C op.49 String Quartet No.4 in D op.83 String Quartet No.9 in E flat op.117 String Quartet No.6 in G op.101 String Quartet No.8 in C minor op.110 String Quartet No.11 in F minor op.122 JERUSALEM Qt: Alexander Pavlovsky (1st violin) Sergei Bresler (2nd violin) Amichai Grosz (alto) Kyril Zlotnikov (cello)...
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(51-CD SET) SHOSTAKOVICH EDITION
Dmitri Shostakovich was the chronicler, the poet in music, of Soviet Russia: from its bright and optimistic inception as enshrined in his First Symphony, through the gradual alienation experienced by genuinely creative figures within Stalin's regime, to which the suppressed Fourth Symphony and opera Lady Macbeth bear powerful witness, to the pressure to conform and supply music that buttressed the regime's ideals, such as patriotic symphonies and sturdy choral works; finally, to a late, disenchanted rapprochement between individual and sta...
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