Shostakovich piano

For the 85th anniversary of Alfred Schnittke, Firma Melodiya releases an album with recordings that have not previously been released on modern platforms. The collection presents Schnittke?s works in various genres. The…

Trio con Brio Copenhagen returns to Orchid Classics with a triptych of Russian piano trios: two works by Shostakovich framing music by Arensky. These Russian composers lived through turning points in their country?s…

Unfairly named ?The Lady with the Hammer? for her uncompromising use of massive thunderous chords and ostinato rhythms, Ustvolskaya was a pupil of Shostakovich but forged her own unique way into many genres. Recently,…

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…

Five years after Shostakovich premiered his quintet to turbulent success in 1940, his new 24-years young friend Weinberg premiered one of his own. For the premiere on March 18th, the 27-year old Weinberg got the String…

Shostakovich was no child prodigy ? he began piano lessons at nine ? but success as a composer came early when his First Symphony, written as a graduation piece, was acclaimed in Leningrad at the premiere in May 1926.…

The legendary pianist recorded live at the Verbier Festival in 2009 and 2010. Accompanied by David Geurrier on trumpet, featured works include Beethoven's 'Piano Concerto No.2 in B-flat Major, Op.19', Scarlatti's 'Sonata…

In the second of his recordings for Linn, charismatic pianist Simon Trpceski performs Shostakovich?s two Piano Concertos with the outstanding Janácek Philharmonic Ostrava under Orchestre National de France?s new Musical…

The celebrated partnership of Marc-André Hamelin and the Takács Quartet has already set down reference recordings of piano quintets by Schumann, Franck and Shostakovich, and this latest addition is equally illustrious;…

Hyperion is thrilled to welcome to the label Andrey Gugnin, winner of the 2016 Sydney International Piano Competition. With a spectacular all-Shostakovich programme built around the two piano sonatas, this is simply…

Following acclaimed recordings of concertos by Dvorák and Shostakovich, by Tan Dun and Josef Suk, the Norwegian violinist Eldbjřrg Hemsing returns to her roots in this Grieg recital, joined by Simon Trpceski at the…

Two highly awarded German musicians present themselves on GENUIN with a powerful Shostakovich album: The sisters Anouchka (cello) and Katharina Hack (piano) combine the early Cello Sonata, Op. 40, and the late work of…

When Shostakovich wrote his Piano Quintet in 1940, most of his chamber music had yet to be composed. Combining formal purity and freedom of tone, the quintet was hailed as a masterly creation and has remained his most…

This recording combines a selection of Weinberg's early works with the piano quintet and some of the children's notebooks from the last two years of the war. Born in Warsaw in 1919, Weinberg fled to Moscow in 1939. There…

Sikorski Musikverlage Schostakowitsch 5 Stücke VL, Classical Sheet Music for Violin, Dimitri Shostakovich: 5 pieces arranged for 2 violins, Arranged by Lewon Atowmjan, With piano accompaniment, Upper level of difficulty,…

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…

Word premiere recordings of the complete incidental music for The Bedbug (1929), 'a coulourful cross between Kurt Weill and an American marching band, with plenty of echoes of early jazz', and the score for the film Love…

Evoke is the Ferio Saxophone Quartet?s third album, following their previous critically acclaimed releases Flux and Revive. For this recording they are joined by pianist Timothy End for a program of original works and…