Shostakovitch, Symphony No 10 in E minor Op 93 II Allegro, (4:13), Berlin Philharmonic (Karajan), Philips 429 716-2.
Bartok apparently was put off by the sheer bombast of
Shostakovitch's Seventh Symphony and responded two years later with his own Concerto for Orchestra as something of a satire.
The most poignant and successful political works take precise aim and can hit their target for that reason, like Dmitri
Shostakovitch's Tenth Symphony, a passionate tirade against Stalin and an elegy for all lost under him which was bottled up for years and finally released upon the dictator's death in 1953.
In the perspective of the time that has passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union, these studies, such as the ones on
Shostakovitch's relation to Jewish music or Jewish artists under the Stalinist regime, reflect the unique circumstances under which musicians and musicologists were forced to act under totalitarian constraints.
Coincidentally, on the night of the premiere of Alberti's new version of Numancia, there was a performance in the concert hall of the SODRE complex of
Shostakovitch's Seventh Symphony, the 'Leningrad', that other great modern statement of resistance to siege.
In particular the
Shostakovitch was a perfect choice for Peace Month.
To stud at 6 years and dam of: Guinevere (1995 f by Fairy King' unraced), Wallace (1996 c by Royal Academy' Listed winner, Gr3-placed), Twilight World (1997 g by Night Shift' winner), Sulk (1999 f by Selkirk' Gr1 winner),
Shostakovitch (2000 c by Danehill' placed), Anna Pallida (2001 f by Sadler's Wells' winner), Broadway Hit (2003 f by Sadler's Wells' unraced), Eagle Mountain (2004 c by Rock Of Gibraltar' Gr2 winner).
PALOMA I a) Dmitry
Shostakovitch (1980) Macro Maritime Ltd.
Riley discusses all the original film scores written by Russian composer
Shostakovitch (1906-75) and comments on the political and personal circumstances surrounding each.
The essential truth of 1984 is not invalidated by the survival in the Soviet Union of Richter and
Shostakovitch. Finally, even if it is true that old men by nature lament, sometimes they have been right to lament, and sometimes they have not lamented enough.
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Shostakovitch, composer (Sun OverMotherland), dies at 68
He has also conducted world premiAres by
Shostakovitch, Dallapiccola, Petrassi, Penderecki and Ligeti.
With a pastiche of scores by Chopin, Schumann,
Shostakovitch, and Rimsky-Korsakov, Nijinsky is a phantasmagoria.
Inspired music choices, however, featuring the likes of
Shostakovitch, Handel and Peteris Vasks, provide startlingly eclectic counterpoint.
