Dmitri shostakovich

The first CD by the philharmonie zuidnederland was of works by Wagner and Tchaikovksy, under their chief conductor Dmitri Liss; this second CD promises to be even more spectacular. The principal work, Shostakovich?s…

The late 1970s were not a particularly happy time for Mieczyslaw Weinberg (Pol. Wajnberg). 1975 brought the death of Dmitri Shostakovich, to whose kindness and friendship Weinberg owed a lot for more than three decades.…

?I simply cannot stop enthusing about Weinberg?s The Passenger. I?ve heard it three times now, studied the score, and every time I understand more of the beauty and greatness of this music. It is a work of consummate…

One of the most exciting cellists of the younger generation and the "Piano Discovery of the Year" team up for this GENUIN release: Benedict Kloeckner and Danae Dorken perform works by Robert Schumann, Dmitri…

Firma Melodiya releases the long-awaited anthology of Maria Yudina?s recordings. ?This is not at all what I wrote, but play it like this. Do play it this way!? exclaimed Dmitri Shostakovich after Yudina performed the…

Dmitri Shostakovich was one of the most important composers of the 20th century. With his works - most notably his fifteen symphonies, which took Late Romantic music and transferred it to the modern age ? he has shaped…

Gianandrea Noseda and the London Symphony Orchestra continue their Shostakovich cycle with a pairing of the iconic Fifth Symphony alongside the composer's First. Few pieces of classical music have been the subject of so…

South African artist William Kentridge's drawings, films, books, installations, and collaborations with opera and theater companies have established him as a world-class star in contemporary art, media, and theater. In…

Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich, based on reminiscences from his contemporaries: family members, friends, fellow musicians and other prominent figures of the…

Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich, based on reminiscences from his contemporaries: family members, friends, fellow musicians and other prominent figures of the…

Universal Edition Schostakowitsch Walzer Nr.2, Classical Sheet Music for Violin, Dmitri Shostakovich Waltz No. 2 from ""Suite for Variety Orchestra, Arranged for 2 violins, Arranged by David Brooker, Easy to medium…

Berlin's Waldbühne amphitheatre is the setting for this July 2011 performance in the Berliner Philharmoniker summer concerts season. Conducted by Riccardo Chailly, the orchestra plays a selection of works by Dmitri…

Firma Melodiya presents an album with Dmitri Shostakovich?s music for cinema and theatre. Shostakovich wrote music for cinema and theatre all his life: almost 100 years have passed since the creation of his first…

On this fascinating new release, violinist Fedor Rudin and pianist Boris Kusnezow perform works by mid-20th-century Russian composers Edison Denisov, Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergey Prokofiev, including previously…

Yury Grigorovich choreographs this live performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's work, performed by the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow in 2016. The story follows a young fisherman who falls in love with a beautiful dancer with…

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. But the story of his controversial role in history is still being told, and his full measure as a musician still…

The Symphony No. 11 in G minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1957 and premiered, by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Natan Rakhlin, on 30 October 1957. The subtitle of the symphony refers to the events of the…

Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich, based on reminiscences from his contemporaries: family members, friends, fellow musicians and other prominent figures of the…

Teodor Currentzis conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in these performances of works by Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich, recorded in 2013 at the Concertgebouw in Bruges. The pieces featured are Britten's…

Acclaimed pianist Martha Algerich joins forces with cellist Mischa Maisky to perform the world premiere of Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin's double concerto for piano, cello and orchestra, 'Romantic Offering'. Also…

'A terrifying and unhappy book...' The GuardianThis astounding self-portrait covering the whole of Shostakovich's life (1906-1975) was prepared in collaboration with the distinguished Soviet musicologist Solomon…

Shostakovich?s 10th Symphony subsumes the composer?s confrontation with Stalin and the Stalin years, even if experts disagree on how it should be interpreted. Even after 1945, despite of the war that had been won, life…

Documentary about Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and his fight against Stalin's brutal Soviet regime. The film illustrates how Shostakovich used his symphonies nos. 4-9 to convey his opposition to his country's…

Berlin's Waldbühne amphitheatre is the setting for this July 2011 performance in the Berliner Philharmoniker summer concerts season. Conducted by Riccardo Chailly, the orchestra plays a selection of works by Dmitri…

Acclaimed pianist Martha Algerich joins forces with cellist Mischa Maisky to perform the world premiere of Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin's double concerto for piano, cello and orchestra, 'Romantic Offering'. Also…

Piano, violin, and violoncello: Trio Marvin's debut CD presents to us all the energy that composers have bundled together in this instrumental combination since the Romantic period. Vita Kan, Marius Urba and Marina…

Grade 4. The Grade By Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey Hawkes catalogue of classical, contemporary and educational repertoire, highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Karl…

Yury Grigorovich choreographs this live performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's work, performed by the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow in 2016. The story follows a young fisherman who falls in love with a beautiful dancer with…

With 22 symphonies, 17 string quartets, 9 concertos, and 7 operas, the composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg left behind an extensive oeuvre. Musically, one can hear the composer's close friendship with Dmitri Shostakovich,…

A unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich which is an appraisal of both the composer and his music, and the tumultuous and dangerous years of the Russian century through which he lived.

Hear the LSO at full strength as Gianandrea Noseda continues his survey of Shostakovich with the monumental Fourth Symphony. Shostakovich at one point thought his Fourth Symphony was the best thing he?d ever written.…

Alban Gerhardt writes admiringly of Rostropovich and the legacy of marvellous works he inspired, but on the evidence of these extraordinary accounts of two of them, he need fear no comparisons with his great Russian…