| 单词 | Shostakovich |
| 例句 | In smaller cinemas a pianist or organist would provide a similarly live accompaniment; Russian classical composer Dmitri Shostakovich supported himself in Leningrad in 1924-5 by doing just that. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Shostakovich was denounced by the Soviet Composers’ Union, and then came a deluge of public criticism - even from former friends and colleagues. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The secret police wanted Shostakovich to answer questions about his friendship with Marshal Tukhachevsky, formerly head of the Red Army, who was being set up for a show trial. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In more recent years, a reluctant consensus has emerged among musicians that Leningrad may not be Shostakovich’s best symphony, despite its iconic status. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Before I sent in my application, I had to practice every spare moment with Professor Christie to fme-tune the Shostakovich concerto and the two Bach suites. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Clearly, whatever Shostakovich did next was going to seal his fate one way or another. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A huge haul of art treasure was taken back to Nazi Germany, but there was one cultural item that could never be stolen from Leningrad: Shostakovich’s seventh symphony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It began life as a single, long, exhaustingly forceful movement, but Shostakovich, in a white heat of besieged inspiration, fleshed it out to a further three movements. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z You don’t expect to hear rock and roll guitar in Shostakovich or a bluesy sax solo in Bartok, even though these composers would have heard both, often, during their working lives. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The Bach suite and the Shostakovich had both flown out of me like never before, like my fingers were just an extension of the strings and bow. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z To Shostakovich, this brief exchange screamed out for operatic dramatization. Music Review | ?The Nose?: Picture This: A Nose Goes Missing 2010-03-07T00:53:00Z The 1941 collection consists of popular folk songs, opera arias and selections from film soundtracks, arranged by Shostakovich to facilitate performance for soldiers on the battlefront. Music Review: ?Wall to Wall Behind the Wall? at Symphony Space 2010-05-16T21:58:00Z But the expressive conductor and the exuberant soloist were certainly on the same page Thursday evening, in the first of four Seattle Symphony performances of a program featuring the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1. Review: Expressive conductor plus exuberant soloist equals stirring evening 2011-05-06T17:10:05Z The acclaimed quartet is touring to Seattle April 21 as part of its 40th anniversary season, with a program of string quartets by Shostakovich and Turnage, and Dvorák’s piano quintet with guest artist Craig Sheppard. 4 don’t-miss classical events around Seattle, April 14-21 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Then again, are there any other particularly meaningful handfuls of Shostakovich lying around? The Emerson Plays Shostakovich at Tanglewood 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Cycles of quartets by Beethoven, Bartók, Shostakovich are now core repertoire. Cuarteto Casals; Beethovenfest Bonn 2012 – review 2012-10-13T23:06:30Z Weinberg was best known as a friend of Shostakovich’s. New York Premiere for a Long-Suppressed Opera 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Shostakovich took full advantage of the comparative freedoms the Soviet regime allowed artists in the 1920s. Opera Review: 'The Nose' Pared Down to Its Essentials 2011-09-27T10:47:47Z Close friends, influenced by each other's work, Britten and Shostakovich regularly share concert programmes. LSO/Tilson Thomas – review 2013-06-12T17:05:21Z By keeping it to 10, you are forced to look for reasons to push out, say, Handel or Shostakovich to make a place for someone else. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z Sheku, what appeals to you about Frank Bridge’s sonata, which is a rarity compared even to the Britten and Shostakovich? A Sister and Brother Choose Repertoire by Feeling and Listening 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z It was composed in 1937 after an official Soviet condemnation of Shostakovich over the modernist decadence of his shocking opera “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.” Music Review: A Visitor Arrives, Armed With a Sprawling Score 2011-02-11T22:52:48Z On April 23 and May 4, the quartet presents concerts at Alice Tully Hall dedicated to works preoccupied with death, including the last three Shostakovich quartets and Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden.” Emerson String Quartet Adapts to a Different Cellist 2014-04-11T21:23:13Z Alastair said that as a child, his father turned him on to bands like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin and the Clash, as well as composers like Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Andrew Lloyd Webber: Lord, Baron, Rocker 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z It’s just so Shostakovich to have such a dramatic mood change. A Sister and Brother Choose Repertoire by Feeling and Listening 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z In the eyes of authorities, the Fifth, with its popular appeal, presented a chance for Shostakovich to “rehabilitate” his career — and possibly save his own life — following several denounced works of musical complexity. At SSO: Two nights of Shostakovich, two Schwarzes 2013-05-09T22:02:20Z Mr. van Zweden will conduct plenty of old favorites, including Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, and works by Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler and Shostakovich. The New York Philharmonic’s Fresh Start: A Season Spent at Home 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Be that as it may, the events of the “Bloody Sunday” uprising were personally significant for Shostakovich, for his father was apparently among the workers involved in the demonstration in the square that day. Andrew Litton, conducting NSO, does justice to Russian program 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Shostakovich disappointed the Philharmonic again in 1961, saying illness prevented him from writing a work that was to have been performed at the opening of Philharmonic Hall. Mahler Said What to Whom? 2011-02-03T22:00:06Z On Jan. 28 and Feb. 6, 1936, Shostakovich was the subject of a pair of unsigned reviews — not editorials, as is often claimed — published in Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z “The goal of the society is that in 10 years, people will recognize Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Bartok and Weinberg as the most important composers of the 20th century,” he said. Recognition for a Composer Who Captured a Century’s Horrors 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The Russian pianist, who won the Arthur Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky competitions in 2011, performs works by Schumann, Shostakovich and Stravinsky. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Hairspray Live!’ and ‘Shut Eye’ 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Saturday and Sunday bring plainer work from the Horszowski Trio: piano trios by Beethoven, Shostakovich and Schumann. Classical & Opera Listings for June 19-25 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z “If you knew what they were listening to as they rolled up to a Shostakovich rehearsal with a great conductor, you’d be surprised,” Mr. Freeman-Attwood said. Classical Crossover for the Win 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The brass playing in the Hindemith was exceptional, and the solo contributions of the principals in the Shostakovich were perfectly etched. Music Review: Sound That?s Lush and Slow, Speedy and Precise 2011-02-16T22:49:49Z Even with its edges softened, the Shostakovich still provided plenty of visceral shifts to which the audience responded with much warmth. Review: American String Project mixes things up this year, resulting in memorable moments 2010-05-21T19:16:00Z Next week’s program includes Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9 and his Piano Concerto No. 2. Guest conductor Olari Elts to lead SSO Shostakovich program 2014-01-24T01:35:08Z Despite his fear of backlash after Stalin’s review, Shostakovich continued to be incredibly prolific. Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Shostakovich was the first composer Mr. Ratmansky discovered on his own, and his music has been a continual source of inspiration. The Week Ahead: Oct. 14 — 20 2012-10-14T07:20:04Z At the end, to Shostakovich’s famous but still surprising setting of “Tea for Two,” the story’s four newlywed husbands require their brides to mime polite tea-drinking. Review: In Bolshoi’s Ballet, Little Shrewishness and Less Taming 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Hartke does not mimic Shostakovich’s harmonic accent but pays tribute to his penchant for offsetting gravity with snarling sarcasm. Music Review: The Brentano String Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-22T21:57:58Z Last spring, he led several concerts in Baltimore, including the orchestra’s first performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15, as well as a benefit concert for Ukraine. Baltimore Symphony’s New Conductor Breaks a Racial Barrier 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z After the interval the conductor gave a heavily scripted introduction to Shostakovich's 11th Symphony, then unveiled his woefully misjudged piece of stage trickery: dimming the auditorium lights up and down according during the music's moods. RSNO/Oundjian – review 2012-10-09T15:39:33Z Alice in Chains' "Them Bones" added energy, although a fast movement from Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony did a pretty good job of that, as well. 'The Reef' concert had a chance to catch a new wave of fans by pairing surf sounds and scenes 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z In its fevered moments, it’s like Shostakovich, all angular brasses and whip-smart percussion. Review: A Concerto in Which East Meets West, and Peace Reigns 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z "It was their interpretations of Shostakovich, Janacek, Beethoven - these are the kind of people they were playing," he explains. The classic pop of Clean Bandit 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z But the truth is that it is pretty banal, and hard to square with the view that everything Shostakovich wrote was encoded dissidence. LSO/Bychkov | Classical review 2010-03-31T22:30:00Z As one Ukrainian online petition argued, the history of composers like Shostakovich, who was censured by the Soviet musical apparatus, has long overshadowed parallel — and often more violent — repressions against Ukrainian composers. When Ukrainian Music Wasn’t Under Threat, It Thrived 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z But Shostakovich said it all much better, and that was 75 years ago. CSO and soloists shine under Dutoit, but Penderecki piece is dull 2011-03-18T17:25:13Z He wrote and arranged all of the music on “A Church That Fits Our Needs,” affixing borrowed elements of Shostakovich and Stravinsky to an indie-rock undercarriage of drums and guitar. New Music: Albums From Wiz Khalifa, Melanie Fiona and Lost in the Trees 2012-03-19T22:16:52Z Neither Shostakovich’s counterpoint nor ideas have the inspired character of Bach’s keyboard preludes and fugues, but they come from a deep, dark, sonorous place that Levit revealed as only made possible by Bach’s inspiration. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z The Boston Symphony Orchestra will give its first New York concerts led by its new music director, Andris Nelsons, three performances that will include the music of Gunther Schuller, Mozart, Strauss, Beethoven, Shostakovich and Mahler. Carnegie Hall Plans South Africa Festival in 2014-15 2014-01-29T16:31:50Z Near the end of the Shostakovich, though, Mr. Glover suddenly takes the music seriously, riding a violin line with an endless roll, impossibly speedy and yet studded with fat accents. Dance Review: Savion Glover’s New Show at the Joyce Theater 2013-06-19T20:55:59Z I had league tables, so when I discovered Shostakovich he came in at number eight and pushed Nielsen down to nine. Mark-Anthony Turnage: A life in music 2011-01-22T07:59:00Z "Concerto DSCH" is set to Dmitri Shostakovich's Concerto No. 2, written in 1957 as a birthday gift for the composer's teenage son, a pianist. PNB introduces a big ballet talent to the Northwest: Alexei Ratmansky 2011-03-12T00:38:59Z Shostakovich is van Zweden country, the kind of repertory in which his characteristic clenched grip on the music helps rather than hinders it. Review: Beatrice Rana Plays Tchaikovsky at Human Scale 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z During the monologue, he takes the audience through the ideas and images that informed his production of the Dmitri Shostakovich opera "The Nose" at New York's Metropolitan Opera House last year. Artist William Kentridge on stage in South Africa 2011-09-17T12:29:12Z American audiences have long embraced her Soviet peers, like Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke, but Ustvolskaya is hardly played in this country. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z A tiny, tight sparkling black number suited Shostakovich. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z But Shostakovich cuts through the grotesquerie to get at Katerina’s desperation. Met’s ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk’ Stars Eva-Maria Westbroek 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Speaking from his home in Tallinn last week, Elts said his lessons with Matsov gave him “some hints from almost a direct line from Shostakovich.” Guest conductor Olari Elts to lead SSO Shostakovich program 2014-01-24T01:35:08Z She played beautifully: her touch patrician in a Beethoven sonata; dreamy in one by Shostakovich; suave in one by Frank Bridge; and alert without being anxious in one by Britten. Review: A Cellist Accompanied by His Sister. Or Vice Versa? 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z The version done at the Met, revised by Shostakovich, radiates noble seriousness, but to fill out its panoramic scope the opera needs passionate singers who believe in their characters and convey the text with clarity. Mussorgsky?s ?Khovanshchina? Comes to Met Opera 2012-02-24T20:07:06Z Elgar, Beethoven and Shostakovich will figure prominently on programs commemorating the 70th anniversary of V-E Day next month. Review: Civil War Songs of Memory and Loss, at Cooper Union 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Palestrina, Shostakovich, rap, avant-garde noise, jazz, performance art. WildUp at the Colburn School and Music Academy of the West 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Angelenos will do the same this weekend, when Van Zweden returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall to lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic through the Fifth Symphonies of Beethoven and Shostakovich. L.A. meets the future conductor of the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Also on the bill is the composer’s stirring 1937 Symphony No. 5 in D minor, which Shostakovich wrote following one of his periodic falls from grace during Stalin’s reign of terror. At SSO: Two nights of Shostakovich, two Schwarzes 2013-05-09T22:02:20Z The company has given its first presentation of Shostakovich’s “The Nose”; next season, there are plans for Prokofiev’s immense “War and Peace” and Brett Dean’s recent “Hamlet.” Review: ‘The Devils of Loudun’ Offers No Escape From Horror 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z The quartet wrestles its way to the end of Shostakovich's unquiet masterpiece, the reprised Largo with its complex contrition and very adult fears. Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z One of the clues is Dmitri Shostakovich, who proposed marriage to Ustvolskaya at least once. A guide to Galina Ustvolskaya's music 2013-04-08T11:27:24Z Or was he mocking Lehar, rather than Shostakovich? Borrowing, appropriating and stealing as old as art itself 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z In the first, frenzied moments of Alexei Ratmansky’s “Shostakovich Trilogy,” a man hurls his body through the air horizontally, trusting other men to catch him. Review: ‘Shostakovich Trilogy,’ Where Joy and Grief Flourish 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Oh yeah, Shostakovich — who is lanced, roasted, shot at and turned into a taxidermy specimen. Theater Review: ‘Opus No. 7’ From the Dmitry Krymov Lab of Moscow 2013-01-14T21:58:16Z A chamber version of the Allegretto from Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, performed by the Pit Stop Players in January, maintained much of the color and energy of the original but revealed nothing new about the music. Rearranging Ideas About Alternate Arrangements 2010-06-11T14:18:00Z Shostakovich’s “Nose,” after the Gogol short story, is staged by the South African artist William Kentridge; it will receive its European premiere following its 2010 triumph at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Music: Europe's Operatic Summer 2011-07-01T12:30:07Z The programme of the Third, with movement titles like Life and Labour or Intrigues and Suffering, may seem as prescriptive as any socialist-realist work by Shostakovich, but Villa-Lobos's response is anything but prescribed. Villa-Lobos: Symphonies No 3 and 4 – review 2013-02-28T21:30:01Z The resulting narrative predictably recycles three mangy tales from the Shostakovich wars. Was Shostakovich a Martyr? Or Is That Just Fiction? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z The program highlighted diverse corners of the trio repertory, opening on a passionate note with Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, written while the composer was a love-struck teenager. Music Review: Lysander Piano Trio Performs at Weill Recital Hall 2014-04-08T22:14:34Z As if that weren’t enough, there’s also Shostakovich, plus Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, with the inimitably probing Leonidas Kavakos as soloist. Classical Music Listings for March 18-24 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z This performance of Shostakovich and Britten by violist Lawrence Power and pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips was a reflection of the friendship and mutual admiration between the two composers. Power/Crawford-Phillips – review 2013-02-27T17:50:19Z Eventually, Shostakovich hopes, time will liberate his music: “History, as well as biography, would fade,” Mr. Barnes writes. Review: Julian Barnes’s ‘The Noise of Time,’ the Inner Shostakovich 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z According to the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, no composer since Beethoven has done more to invigorate the symphonic literature, with the exceptions of Gustav Mahler and Dmitri Shostakovich. ‘Words Without Music’: A look inside Philip Glass’s creative genius 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The rising temperature did nothing to diminish the audience’s enthusiasm for the performance, though no one complained when the climate-control system was reactivated after the Shostakovich. Quartet skillfully navigates haunting Shostakovich 2013-07-25T19:23:04Z Though political history is never far away in discussions of Dmitri Shostakovich, the same is less true of his contemporary Benjamin Britten. LSO/Elder 2010-06-14T21:31:00Z Ross's doom-laden narrative of Shostakovich and his music under Stalin's regime is, perhaps, the most dramatic portion of The Rest Is Noise. The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z Perry’s “Study” felt connected — across the Beethoven concerto and the intermission that followed — to Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony, another work whose swaths of high spirits are tinged with a bit too much aggression, a clenched grin. Review: The Philharmonic’s Conductor Returns to His Perch 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z What Shostakovich’s music had to do with history has been one of the most fraught questions in the history of music. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The new dance is part of a trilogy of Shostakovich works that will be shown at the Metropolitan Opera House this spring. The Week Ahead: Oct. 14 — 20 2012-10-14T07:20:04Z It speaks to his collegiality that his encore included five of the orchestra’s cellists in his arrangement of an excerpt from Shostakovich’s film score for “The Gadfly.” Review: International Orchestras Are Finally Back at Carnegie 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Shostakovich’s tendency toward long-windedness is already evident, even though the opera lasts just an hour and 45 minutes, and the Met, rightly, performs it without intermission. Music Review | ?The Nose?: Picture This: A Nose Goes Missing 2010-03-07T00:53:00Z Another friend, Lev Lebedinsky, suggests that low-level functionaries simply wanted it to advance their careers, and forced Shostakovich to capitulate under the influence of alcohol. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z He performed on the front lines with a music and acting ensemble that included Dmitri Shostakovich. Yuri Lyubimov, Experimental Stage Director, Dies at 97 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z In a widely reported incident from the winter of 1998, he walked off the Avery Fisher podium in the middle of a performance of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, vexed by concertgoers’ coughing. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z If the Brahms was a bit of a puzzler, the Shostakovich Quintet for Piano and Strings in G minor exceeded the crowd's high expectations. World-class musicianship on display at Chamber Music Society Winter Festival 2011-01-28T19:29:03Z Preparation for publication of a book about music and the cultural memory of World War II and the Holocaust in the works and lives of Shostakovich, Britten, Schoenberg and Richard Strauss. These books are brought to you with the help of Uncle Sam. 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Thursday brings an even more eclectic program, with the violinist Lisa Batiashvili: the overture to Beethoven’s “Fidelio” and his Symphony No. 1 alongside Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” and Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Jan. 3-9 2014-01-02T23:14:18Z In 2007 he guest conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in a concert that included music by Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky and Shostakovich. Berlin Philharmonic names Kirill Petrenko as new chief conductor 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The most distinguished programs — a triple bill of ballets by Mark Morris, Ashton and George Balanchine, and Alexei Ratmansky’s new “Shostakovich Trilogy” — received only four performances each. Critic’s Notebook: American Ballet Theater Presents ‘Sleeping Beauty’ 2013-07-07T21:18:29Z She was even chagrined when Shostakovich claimed her as a kind of muse: “It is not you who are under my influence,” he once wrote to her. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The April 11 and April 13 programs are mostly standard Nelsons fare: Shostakovich, Mozart and Strauss, with Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 and a new work by Jörg Widmann filling in the gaps. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z In something of a redo of Shostakovich’s Burlesque, “Roman Festivals” closes with a portrait of the antic, circuslike crowds of Piazza Navona in Rome. Review: When the Philharmonic Applauds the Soloist 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The delicacy, legato and individuality of the three Shostakovich preludes and fugues — Nos. Sound worlds spinning from a single keyboard 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z “Never once,” she wrote in a 1994 essay, “was Shostakovich’s music close to me. Nor was his personality.” She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z “The names of Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff are being removed from playbills,” President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on television on Friday. Putin Says Tchaikovsky Is Being Canceled. The Met Opera Disagrees. 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z On the evening of January 26, 1936, Joseph Stalin and several other Soviet leaders went to the Bolshoi Theatre, in Moscow, to see a performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.” Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Shostakovich’s String Quartets No. 7 and 8, which Mr. Ehnes performs with his quartet, offer a stark contrast in mood — particularly their searing rendition of the Eighth. Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Shostakovich, Tigran Mansurian and More 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Though Mr. Ratmansky’s new “Shostakovich Trilogy” at American Ballet Theater yields further subtleties at each viewing, it’s this “Concerto DSCH,” set to Shostakovich’s second piano concerto, that remains this choreographer’s most perfect work. Dance Review: Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky at New York City Ballet 2013-06-06T20:20:40Z The result is unlikely to startle anybody who knows Shostakovich — or to offer a particularly fresh view of this complicated, tortured man. With ‘The Noise of Time,’ Julian Barnes takes on music, timidly 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Shostakovich had been denounced as "formalist", a catch-all term of imprecise meaning, and from then until Stalin's death he trod a nervous and fearful path. The Rest is Noise festival: The Art of Fear 2013-05-08T20:42:52Z Where Litton went wrong was to mention widely discredited theories that Shostakovich was not really celebrating this prelude to the Soviet Revolution but making veiled references to the Hungarian uprising in 1956. Andrew Litton, conducting NSO, does justice to Russian program 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z At one point, Shostakovich appears to be implicated, along with his musical patron, the military hero Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevksy, in a plot to assassinate Stalin. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Shostakovich takes Katerina’s side in this ghastliness, pushing his opera beyond the bounds of theatrical convention to make a point about amoral responses to amorality. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z In the Shostakovich, especially the finale, Mr. Zander is a stickler for the composer’s tempo markings and note values as indicative of the expressive intent. Music Review: Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-10T22:14:02Z During the break, I wondered if the clean, bright acoustics of the Philharmonic’s new hall were partly to blame for the orchestra’s showing in the Shostakovich. Review: When the Philharmonic Applauds the Soloist 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The concert’s principal work, the iconic Shostakovich Trio, was dispatched with almost perfect technical address, but the emotional range was narrow. At Kennedy Center, Duo Parnas is faultless to a fault 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z “The most important thing for me is the theme of all-consuming powerful love and how important it was for Shostakovich to portray such deep feelings and create such a complex character,” Ms. Sozdateleva said. Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z “Left deviationism in opera grows out of the same source as left deviationism in painting, in poetry, in pedagogy, in science,” the critic writes, finally denouncing Shostakovich for “trifling with difficult matters.” Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z A few 20th-century works, among them a Shostakovich concerto and a Schnittke pastiche on Haydn and Mozart, are being plopped into some festival orchestra programs. Louis Langrée and Richard Goode Featured at Mostly Mozart 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z The 12 Shostakovich preludes and fugues were another matter. After cancellation, Melnikov gives unplanned solo recital at the Phillips 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z There a lot of ideas in there that I like to steal and adapt to guitar from people like Shostakovich, Benjamin Britten. Richard Thompson: Innovation in, nostalgia out 2013-03-10T23:57:00Z Yet for all the polish on display, there was an edginess and white-hot intensity to the orchestra’s sound that suited Shostakovich just right. Review | Philadelphia Orchestra triumphs in epic Seventh Symphony 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Debates over the actual meaning of his pieces have taken on the quality of titanic political arguments; they have even been dubbed the Shostakovich Wars. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z In the first movement Shostakovich channels mournful feelings into a Neo-Classical structure. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra, With Nézet-Séguin, at Carnegie Hall 2013-01-18T21:50:44Z Mr. Ratmansky, 51, has created ballets to Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and other Russian composers, as well as Scarlatti, Strauss and Bernstein. ‘How Am I Going to Dance to This?’ Ratmansky’s New Music Frontier 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z They spent their summers at a government-run retreat for writers and composers, where Shostakovich wrote his Second Quartet. Music Review: Moscow String Quartet at Frick Collection - Review 2011-10-04T20:14:39Z His two-act Shostakovich comedy “The Bright Stream,” originally created for the Bolshoi Ballet, was a shot in the arm for American Ballet Theater, which acquired that hit this year. Looking Back: Cunningham, Morris, Ratmansky, Hallberg and Cojocaru 2011-12-17T05:26:08Z Two mighty symphonies make up the program: Tchaikovsky’s Fourth and Shostakovich’s Fifth. Classical & Opera Listings for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Last time, at those 2007 concerts at Carnegie, the composers included Berlioz, Chopin, Beethoven, Bartok, Shostakovich and Bernstein. The Week Ahead: Dec. 9 — 15 2012-12-09T08:00:06Z In his perceptive booklet notes Mr. Melnikov addresses the criticism sometimes leveled at these pieces: that in paying tribute to Bach, Shostakovich was too formal and academic. Alexander Melnikov Records Shostakovich Preludes 2010-07-04T02:16:00Z But you would not necessarily think to pair the savage, sometimes maniacal Shostakovich with the ingratiating, hummable Dvorak. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann and Philharmonic Play Shostakovich 2012-11-25T23:04:20Z The building's missionary past added a ghostly dimension to the shadowy spirituality of Shostakovich's work. Michelangelo Sonnets; Hippolyte et Aricie – review 2013-07-06T23:09:04Z In choreographing “The Bright Stream” Mr. Ratmansky helped to restore one of the overlooked compositions of the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Dance Review: Peasants Having Fun Down on the Old Soviet Farm 2011-06-12T22:38:30Z Some directors understandably react to Shostakovich’s display of brilliance by trying to match it, point-by-point if possible, in their staging. Opera Review: 'The Nose' Pared Down to Its Essentials 2011-09-27T10:47:47Z Gerard Schwarz stands among the world's finest exponents of Shostakovich's music, and the Eighth Symphony is very possibly the composer's greatest. Too few hands applaud Gerard Schwarz's powerful return 2012-04-27T17:03:04Z In a well-chosen program of early Schubert, late Shostakovich and middle Brahms, the Hagen sounded like three groups. Hagen Quartet’s precision, flexible style create fresh interpretation of classics 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Nelsons also plans to lead subscription concerts featuring works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, as well as works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler. ArtsBeat: Andris Nelsons to Open Boston Symphony Season With a Flourish 2014-03-05T19:45:37Z His epithet — “a close friend of Shostakovich” — is a useful point of reference for music that’s of the same general place and time as Shostakovich’s while remaining very much his own. Review | One of the greatest music events in Washington this year is happening at the Phillips 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Of the Shostakovich “Festive Overture” that opened the concert, the less said, the better. BSO breathes new fire into familiar classics in Sunday matinee 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z In the past four years he has traversed the works of Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Stravinsky at Carnegie and Avery Fisher Halls, with the London Symphony, Mariinsky Theater Orchestra and New York Philharmonic. | Oct. 17 ? 23 2010-10-15T16:51:00Z It recorded pieces by the contemporary composers Jonathan Berger and John Adams with the same intensity as those by Shostakovich, Schumann and Tchaikovsky that it released on the EMI label. Geoff Nuttall, First Among Equals in Acclaimed Quartet, Dies at 56 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z So we watch as Shostakovich struggles to live a life devoted to music, with history constantly intervening. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z “I’m really into the Russians Shostakovich and Prokofiev,” Savage says. Parquet Courts: ‘Sunbathing Animal’ has a punk sound with surprising influences In 1945, Shostakovich announced his intention to create an epic, euphoric symphony with choir and soloists to celebrate the victory over Nazi Germany. Hallé/Znaider – review 2012-05-25T18:06:41Z Though 15 years Prokofiev's junior and reacting to different political and artistic issues, Shostakovich followed a similar trajectory. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z The best guess is that Shostakovich, whom Steinberg called his best pupil, delivered it to Buketoff at a 1957 dinner party in Philadelphia. Steinberg’s ‘Passion Week’ by Clarion Choir 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Swedish musicians enjoy the sudden visit, but then embarrass Shostakovich by asking him to name his favorite Swedish composer. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The dynamic pianist William Wolfram sits in with a group of SSO musicians for an afternoon of chamber music by Dvorak, Poulenc, Shostakovich and Britten. The Week Ahead: ‘The Lion King,’ Lake Street Dive 2014-03-05T21:56:33Z Shostakovich’s symphonies, which also number 15, make powerful public statements. Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z As for his official co-option, there is no reason to think that Shostakovich sought either the Party membership or the Union leadership that the government thrust upon him. Was Shostakovich a Martyr? Or Is That Just Fiction? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z The result of Shostakovich’s confrontation with the apparatus of Stalinism, and of his subsequent reassumption, was that his music has become impossible to interpret outside of historical circumstances. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Shostakovich wrote this quartet in just three days in July 1960. Music Review: Cassatt String Quartet Performs Shostakovich at Bargemusic 2013-09-09T20:27:06Z So, too, was the Shostakovich First Symphony, which closed the program. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Smelkov made his Met debut in “The Nose” by Shostakovich last season. ArtsBeat: 'Exhaustion' Sidelines Gergiev From Wednesday Night Performance at Met 2011-03-09T18:48:58Z It won raves in Gramophone and Fanfare magazines, and its follow-up, featuring works by Haydn, Turina and Shostakovich, is being greeted with equal rapture. Icicle Creek Piano Trio gives free CD-release concert at Town Hall 2011-03-03T20:37:03Z In 2010, in a momentous company debut, he directed a dazzling, frenetic production of Shostakovich’s wildly satirical opera “The Nose,” based on a Gogol short story. Review: A Masterful ‘Lulu’ at the Met 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z This comic ballet, to music by Dmitri Shostakovich, opens Thursday as part of Ballet Theater’s spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House. Have Any Point Shoes In a Man?s Size 9? 2011-06-03T18:22:07Z Having dispatched the 15 Shostakovich quartets last season, the Pacifica now presents a complete cycle of Beethoven’s 16 quartets. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 brought more, much more, of the same. Review: New York Philharmonic’s Memorial Day Concert 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Never mind that “Eugene Onegin” opened at the Met that evening, as the New York Philharmonic was playing Shostakovich across the street. Putin Says Tchaikovsky Is Being Canceled. The Met Opera Disagrees. 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z In 1979, a book purporting to be Shostakovich’s memoir, entitled “Testimony,” appeared in the West, depicting a frustrated composer who despised Communism and hid veiled critiques of the Soviet regime in his music. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Shostakovich hinted that the Soviet suppression of the 1956 Hungarian uprising was on his mind when he wrote it. BBCSO/Metzmacher – review 2013-05-27T16:00:46Z This was not a rendition of the Mahler who prefigured Shostakovich. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Leads His New York Philharmonic 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z The music of two unlikely friends is joined in this program, conducted by Jaap van Zweden: Dmitri Shostakovich, represented by his titanic “Leningrad” Symphony, and Benjamin Britten, with his Violin Concerto. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z In a charming introduction to the video, Ratmansky explains the title, a German abbreviation of the name of the score’s composer, Dmitri Shostakovich. Art, Music and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z After detailing Shostakovich’s musical sins, the article proceeds to make political threats. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Shostakovich was forced to recant his alleged crimes against Communist Party doctrine, and his first major act of public atonement following that humiliation was the more accessibly populist Symphony No. 5, of 1937. Conlon serves Shostakovich suite to the max with CSO 2011-04-22T17:40:00Z That’s particularly true of “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” Shostakovich’s ferocious depiction of Russian society out of joint, with crime and corruption rampant. A Trio of Dangerous Women in a Met Opera Week to Remember 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z On the table are the memoirs of Shostakovich. The Classic Novel That Makes Percival Everett Cringe 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z With elaborate shifting sets, numerous projections and many stage extras, Mr. Kentridge dazzled the eye as surely as Shostakovich dazzled the ear. Opera Review: 'The Nose' Pared Down to Its Essentials 2011-09-27T10:47:47Z It’s bizarre to see this company present this foolish ballet immediately after staging Alexei Ratmansky’s substantial and musically searching “Shostakovich Trilogy.” Dance Review: ‘Le Corsaire,’ American Ballet Theater 2013-06-05T22:00:27Z The primary source of the legend, Solomon Volkov’s purported Shostakovich memoir “Testimony,” which is quoted on the CD’s back cover, is now considered a literary fraud by many scholars. CD reviews: Two lyrical recordings of classic 20th-century scores 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Quotations of Shostakovich’s own previous music abound—including, in the final movement with the name motif, a counterpoint from the last scene of “Lady Macbeth,” in which prisoners are transported to Siberia. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony is a hair-raising creation, which gained additional power when Litton let his sophisticated, tasteful players off the leash. Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Litton | Classical review 2010-03-24T22:35:00Z Shostakovich provides this poetry with the jagged, difficult and tragic music it calls out for. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z Elder's performance, in its moderate, caring way, recognized them without the underlining that has changed our view of the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. CSO: Hough, Elder, Tchaikovsky a match made in heaven 2011-01-07T20:59:00Z But the unity of playing in a fairly conventional program of Mozart, Shostakovich and Brahms on Tuesday is something not to be found anywhere else. Hagen Quartet shows exquisite unity in rare SoCal concert 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Shostakovich begins with a jazzy, almost nose-thumbing nerve, turns wildly sarcastic in the second movement and then gets deep, solemn, agitated, angry and finally furious in the later movements. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Audiences flocked enthusiastically to hear the latest symphony of Haydn, Mendelssohn, Sibelius and Shostakovich, but those days are apparently behind us. Review | Shift festival illustrates a clutch shortfall in today’s symphony culture 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z “He was his normal jovial self up until this moment in the third movement of the Shostakovich symphony,” the Fifth, the musician said. ArtsBeat: Riccardo Muti Collapses During Rehearsal 2011-02-03T22:38:37Z Mr. Dutoit devoted the second half of the program to Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, a somber, at times ferociously angry work, composed shortly after Stalin’s death yet clearly still under the shadow of his tyranny. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-26T23:41:47Z Hollow optimism in the Shostakovich manner is in short supply, as is Beethovenian celebration. LSO/Harding – review 2013-02-08T12:46:35Z Shostakovich took up the call in his “Song of the Forests” from 1949, an oratorio that glorified Soviet forestation campaigns in Siberia through pleasing, triumphant harmonies and an easy-to-understand text setting. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Just as Prokofiev had been himself at that age, Shostakovich was already Shostakovich by the time he reached 20. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Composed in free verse, these 50 portraits of Soviet writers, composers and artists trapped between art and politics span the famous — like Anna Akhmatova, Isaac Babel and Dmitry Shostakovich — to the lesser known. New & Noteworthy 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Shostakovich’s work, though, has a warily detached polish that sets it apart from his friend’s. New York Premiere for a Long-Suppressed Opera 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Wigglesworth showed he was as sensitive an orchestral leader as he was an accompanist in the Shostakovich, elegantly sculpting the phrases without extraneous flash. A substitute leads a fine night at the NSO 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z For good measure, Dmitri Shostakovich’s compositions sometimes blare in, adding scale and tension. Review | This Putin learns the power of lies in ‘Describe the Night’ 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Kerzhentsev’s task was to correct culture, which meant correcting the top composer in the land of the Soviets: Shostakovich. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The elegant foursome, drawn from the storied Berlin Philharmonic, will lend their talents to works by Shostakovich, Beethoven and Debussy. The Short List: Ron Reagan, Wallace Shawn and a film tribute to Spalding Gray 2011-01-12T22:46:04Z In 2002, Rostropovich heard that the communal residents of the apartment in which Shostakovich lived as a young man might be willing to sell. St Petersburg's homely tributes to Russia's great artists 2012-11-20T13:56:01Z During an interview at the Guggenheim Museum, Mr. Ratmansky called the commission the riskiest project he ever planned, asking, “How would you sell three symphonies of Shostakovich at the Met?” The Week Ahead: Oct. 14 — 20 2012-10-14T07:20:04Z “If you wrote a line of poetry that said, ‘Stalin was a bad man,’ then you were dead,” said Mr. Palmer, the director of the Shostakovich film. Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z It's the kind of motif you expect to find in Shostakovich, depicting the advance of the Red Army and the destruction of Europe some half a century later. Madama Butterfly; Cavalleria rusticana; Pagliacci; Pierre-Laurent Aimard – review 2013-06-15T23:05:36Z Shostakovich was censured by the Stalinist regime and feared for his career, as well as his safety. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The German baritone Matthias Goerne sings across a range of compositional styles on this album — works by Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Berg and Shostakovich — but the feeling is often the same: anguished. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Metzmacher's ability to blend attention to detail and structure with in-your-face emotion is telling in Shostakovich. BBCSO/Metzmacher – review 2013-05-27T16:00:46Z The Symphony No. 4 was to be the next major public work Shostakovich would unveil. Seattle Symphony to pair masterpieces by Shostakovich, Stravinsky 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z The initial program will center on Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 and a piece with a soloist, who has not yet been chosen. Carnegie Hall to Establish National Youth Orchestra in 2013 2012-01-11T21:00:13Z While there are important figures who accomplished giant symphonic outputs in the first half of the 20th century — Sibelius, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, principally — the field thins out during the second half. Music Review: Beating the ‘Curse of the Ninth’ 2014-02-04T13:01:10Z The Germans who invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 are represented in Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony by an unexpectedly bright tune that hardens into a bitter march. An Argument for Hearing a Work With a Nazi Reference 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z In his preface to “The Passenger,” Shostakovich called the opera a “perfect masterpiece” whose “spiritual format and humanism impress the listener without fail.” Recognition for a Composer Who Captured a Century’s Horrors 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The Shostakovich concerto, written six years after Stalin’s death in 1953, seems a sardonic look back at the composer’s times of troubles under the thumb of that dictator. Music Review: Andrey Boreyko Conducts the New York Philharmonic 2014-01-24T22:15:22Z Later in her life, though, Ustvolskaya vehemently rejected Shostakovich’s impact on her. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Shostakovich began composing this symphony, his seventh, before the German invasion. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Screaming Reflection on War 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z On Friday at the Austrian Embassy, the Minetti Quartet offered enjoyable if unremarkable renditions of works by Mozart, Shostakovich and Mendelssohn. The Minetti Quartet is enjoyable but not striking at Austrian Embassy 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Stalin personally ordered Shostakovich to attend and, reasonably enough, he dared not refuse. Ian McEwan on Sweet Tooth – Guardian book club 2013-07-13T09:29:00Z The acclaimed author treads so gently around the life of 20th-century Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich that he stays almost entirely external, only skimming below the surface of the public facade. With ‘The Noise of Time,’ Julian Barnes takes on music, timidly 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Photo: Tom Service/Guardian.co.uk And if you need to escape the Wagnerian juggernaut, you've no chance until Monday's concatenation of Britten, Shostakovich, and Naturally 7. Why the Proms Ring cycle is realising Wagner's true intent 2013-07-26T08:55:00Z The sources on which Mr. Barnes most conspicuously relies are the two canonical texts of the Shostakovich wars. Was Shostakovich a Martyr? Or Is That Just Fiction? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Beyond the lurid “Lady Macbeth,” critics have come to see even Shostakovich’s most triumphal musical gestures as mere surface, hiding the cunning silences of a dissident. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z It could also be his moment to dethrone Shostakovich following the disastrous premiere of his opera “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” which was mocked by Stalin and denounced in the Communist newspaper Pravda. The Tortured History Behind Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z They will move west through Europe, starting in the Soviet Union with Shostakovich’s Third Quartet. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Oct. 10-16 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The progression to the climactic major-key explosion was grim, and its achievement, as Shostakovich may well have intended, was the very definition of an empty victory. Review: Beatrice Rana Plays Tchaikovsky at Human Scale 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z More than any other of Mr. Ratmansky’s Shostakovich works, “Concerto No. 1” deals in choreographic motifs. Late Into American Ballet Theater’s Fall Season, a Flowering 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The Shostakovich, in its nervous questioning and putative triumph, sounded thoroughly lived in. Reviews: Chelsea Music Festival, Gregg Kallor and St. Petersburg Philharmonic 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z He likes to make dancers tear across stages in red leotards to Shostakovich, and he also likes sniffing around in archives and reading old dance manuals. Ratmansky’s Beauty Wakes Up 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z But it was notable that Jansons, so assured and passionate in, for example, his definitive recordings of the Shostakovich symphonies, seemed to approach Mahler as more of a conundrum. How a great orchestra started its U.S. tour: Carefully. 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z But Shostakovich tried to reassure listeners otherwise, calling it an “optimistic, life-asserting work,” and noting that “all that is dark and evil will rot away and beauty will triumph.” New York Philharmonic, Led by Jaap van Zweden 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z His festival will look partly back to the chamber music he admired in his youth, including performances of pieces by Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schoenberg, Bartok and Shostakovich. Music Review: Glass?s Players Warm Up for a Festival in August 2011-06-13T22:17:30Z It was the Shostakovich, though, that was most impressive. Prom 13: NYO-USE/Gergiev – review 2013-07-22T17:49:10Z Shostakovich claimed that everything he had ever written was in preparation for the Fourteenth; Vasily Petrenko performed as if he has spent his entire career preparing to conduct it. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Petrenko – review 2013-05-05T15:50:50Z "Shostakovich played every piece, before going to print, for Weinberg, to get his okay, until he died," Roth said, adding that Weinberg's music showed his neighbour's influence. German violinist Roth champions 'forgotten' Weinberg 2014-03-04T08:03:44Z Russian composers like Shostakovich were censured by the Soviet regime, which also subjected musicians in Poland to its Socialist Realist aesthetic. Music Review: A Lutoslawski Tribute Includes ‘Bukoliki’ 2013-12-17T22:09:30Z Ms. Basilova played with flair in the jovial outer movements, which are full of witty touches but lack the sardonic bite of many of Shostakovich’s darker works. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2012-10-09T22:16:43Z Tuesday’s program features a Shostakovich trilogy; Wednesday and Thursday bring a Ratmanksy triple bill: his new work paired with “Firebird” and “Seven Sonatas.” Dance Listings for May 13-19 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Shostakovich, forced to work only with his left hand in his final years yet refusing to yield to illness or despair, took the same view. Michelangelo Sonnets; Hippolyte et Aricie – review 2013-07-06T23:09:04Z The audience, surprisingly large given the inclement weather, responded with gusto, applauding each song, including those within the Shostakovich cycle. Music Review: Singing the Romance in the Russian Soul 2010-03-02T22:22:00Z Stop-action animation and theatrical design are central to Mr. Kentridge’s work, and he has unleashed his imagination on Shostakovich’s bitterly satirical and breathless opera. Music Review | ?The Nose?: Picture This: A Nose Goes Missing 2010-03-07T00:53:00Z Julian Barnes’s new novel, “The Noise of Time,” is about Shostakovich, and it begins with the composer enduring the humiliation and misery of his exclusion from musical life in 1936. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z If he occasionally gave in to a predilection for sheer loudness, it was nothing compared with the volume Rostropovich could produce in Shostakovich. Critic’s Notebook: Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-13T22:06:48Z In some hands, Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto can seem a less important work than his phantasmagorical and highly original Concerto No. 2. Review: The return of the ranking cellist ? Yo-Yo Ma 2010-12-08T19:22:00Z Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was written in the thick of World War II action, in the besieged city of Leningrad, by which name it is known. Too few hands applaud Gerard Schwarz's powerful return 2012-04-27T17:03:04Z Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony, a potent symbol of the Allied struggle against the Nazis, “seems to have been written for the slow-witted, the not very musical and the distracted.” Virgil Thomson’s Enduring Critique of Classical Music in America 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Sunday's Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra concert spotlights two Russian composers — Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich — and a young local violinist who will solo on Shostakovich's work of protest against a brutal regime. Teen violinist Mari? Rossano to solo on Shostakovich with Seattle Phil 2011-04-07T19:29:04Z But once in possession of political power, Shostakovich behaved not like a saint but like a politician. Was Shostakovich a Martyr? Or Is That Just Fiction? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Written for Shostakovich’s son, then a 19-year-old music student, it’s frisky in its outer two movements, lyrical in its central slow movement, and altogether a delight. Guest conductor Olari Elts to lead SSO Shostakovich program 2014-01-24T01:35:08Z Mr. Salonen also conducts the orchestra in Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony, and the political history of that work is a whole other story. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z I also wish Sheldon had paid more attention to the actual music since, as Andrew Porter once wrote: "Shostakovich's symphonies are the public biography of a great musician in relation to Soviet art." Review | Theatre | A Model for Mankind | Cock Tavern, London | Michael Billington 2010-03-29T23:21:00Z In the first movement of the Shostakovich, he seemed to be going for dramatic understatement. Music Review: Lorin Maazel and New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-01-25T22:03:14Z Much was made of the Shostakovich parody in the "Interrupted Intermezzo," capped off by a hearty razz berry from Charles Vernon's trombone. CSO goes to the mat for sub conductor 2011-01-21T17:34:13Z Like Shostakovich, Bulgakov wrote some works that Soviet leaders praised and others that they banned. British writer John Hodge on theater vs. film, and ‘Trainspotting’ sequel 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Shostakovich is known to have derided the Soviet form of this criticism. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky symphonies were studies in letting a score speak for itself. Review: The Rising Star of Conducting Arrives in New York 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z Just over 20 minutes long, it’s more succinct than any other Shostakovich symphony, boasting wily, sonorous, captivating touches that take manic or thorny turns without ever veering into bombast — and that was the problem. Guest conductor Olari Elts to lead SSO Shostakovich program 2014-01-24T01:35:08Z Dmitri Shostakovich’s career is the most deeply politicized in Russian music history, perhaps in all music history. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Litton, born and raised in New York, has a family background that is Russian-Jewish; he feels intimately connected to a number of Russian composers from Tchaikovsky to Shostakovich. Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z It was the beginning of a season of terror for Shostakovich, as well as for other artists and composers. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The glowing, somber account of that Shostakovich Largo, though, will linger more. Music Review: The Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-25T23:35:51Z At home the humiliation really sinks in, and for a fleeting while Shostakovich delves into Kovalyov’s anguish and shows him as pitiable. ?The Nose,? and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera 2010-03-11T19:52:00Z He found it strange that Shostakovich’s gloomy Sixth Symphony, the only work on the program not written by Mr. Penderecki, should end up being a leavening agent. Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish Composer With Cinematic Flair, Dies at 86 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z "I lived in the same apartment building as Shostakovich and would meet him in the yard," Feltsman says by phone from his home in upstate New York. Pianist Vladimir Feltsman knows Shostakovich the man as well as his music 2011-04-28T20:13:17Z But Owens's singing has sombre magnificence, and Carpenter's mercurial, vibrantly coloured organ arrangement clothes the skeletal frame of the piano score with the richer arraignments of the orchestral version that Shostakovich never lived to hear. Michelangelo Sonnets – review 2013-07-05T16:36:00Z “Most of the Russians knew instinctively that Shostakovich spoke for them, which says a lot about the power of his music. That’s why it will always resonate, particularly at this moment.” Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Nelsons, the music director of the Boston Symphony, will conduct 12 programs, including symphonies by Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Berlioz; Poulenc’s “Gloria” with Nicole Cabell; and the Beethoven piano concerto cycle with Mr. Lewis. Violin Stars Will Celebrate Isaac Stern at Tanglewood 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Eight years ago, she was finishing up a program for young musicians at the London Philharmonic Orchestra when she travelled to Perm to play Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, with Currentzis conducting. Teodor Currentzis Brings His Intense Verdi to New York 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Bridge was Britten’s teacher; and Britten and Shostakovich are linked, as the Kanneh-Masons said in a recent interview with The New York Times, through the advocacy of the great cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. Review: A Cellist Accompanied by His Sister. Or Vice Versa? 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z This new play by American James Sheldon, a former investment banker, is about the tortured creative life of Dmitri Shostakovich. Review | Theatre | A Model for Mankind | Cock Tavern, London | Michael Billington 2010-03-29T23:21:00Z The next year Shostakovich parodied Stalin in his Ninth Symphony, which Valery Gergiev conducted with brilliantly snarling intensity when he brought his Mariinsky Orchestra to Walt Disney Concert Hall last month. An L.A. Phil reminder that but a mile, and fate, separate Disney Hall from skid row 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z The music reaches its expressive apex in the section called "Asturianada," in which Rami Solomonow's eloquent viola suggested the mournful intensity of Shostakovich's string quartet writing. Frank's energetic chamber works reveal multi-cultural roots 2011-01-19T16:19:49Z The debate continues about what Shostakovich meant with his 1937 Fifth Symphony, whether the composer acted as a sop to Stalin or employed surreptitiously dissident context to harmonic consonances. An eloquent remembrance by Armenian National Philharmonic 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Speaking from Kansas City, Mo., they talked about their program of cello sonatas by Frank Bridge, Britten, Shostakovich and either Khachaturian or Beethoven, depending on the stop. A Sister and Brother Choose Repertoire by Feeling and Listening 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z The Boston Symphony Orchestra took home the top orchestral Grammy for its album "Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow," which features the Russian composer's Symphony No. 10, conducted by Andris Nelsons. 'Hamilton' wins musicals award; Stephen Paulus and Boston Symphony honored in classical category 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z It’ll be paired with a very different Russian epic, Shostakovich’s powerfully cinematic Symphony No. 11. Meet Ray Chen, the violinist making his Seattle Symphony debut who’s also created an app and a viral video 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The Jerusalem Quartet excels in 20th-century repertoire, including its fine partial traversal of the Shostakovich quartets. CD reviews: Bartók by heart, for the heart 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z But in Mozart, in Shostakovich, in Wagner, often, you get this feeling that you’re rooted in the rational but you’ve gone to some place that isn’t circumscribed by geometry any more. Don’t Talk Too Much: Tony Kushner on an Operatic ‘Angels in America’ 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z The orchestra sounded in good shape, with particularly fine work from the woodwinds in the Shostakovich slow movement. Critic’s Notebook: Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-13T22:06:48Z These songs carry the listener almost to the realm of, say, Mussorgsky’s “Songs and Dances of Death,” which Shostakovich orchestrated. Review: Unlikely Pairing Turns to Intense Affinity at Carnegie 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Many people chose moments from various pieces by Shostakovich. Readers Name Some Favorite Musical Surprises of Their Own 2014-04-25T14:00:02Z But the remarkable, disappointing fact is that his fictional Shostakovich is not his own invention. Was Shostakovich a Martyr? Or Is That Just Fiction? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z After the concert was over, most people I heard from were buzzing about Noseda and the orchestra in the powerful Shostakovich Sixth Symphony. An exercise in filling an evening: Noseda, NSO are vivid in long 19th-century music 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z “But to play this music for a symphony orchestra is as important as playing Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich and Ravel — everything — because it’s very difficult, it’s very healthy, it’s very pure, it’s very imaginative.” A Female Conductor Joins the Ranks of Top U.S. Orchestras 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z A quizzical prologue sets up two long sets of intricate variations in myriad styles, with echoes of Neo-Classical Stravinsky and ironic Shostakovich. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Just his knowledge of Shostakovich and Prokofiev, especially: Those were some of the most thrilling concerts I think we’ve ever done. Leaving the NSO, a veteran clarinetist reflects on the orchestra’s ups and downs 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The concert allowed Andrey Boreyko to demonstrate why he figures among the more promising young Russian conductors by leading a shrewdly judged performance of Shostakovich’s enigmatic yet strangely inviting Symphony No.15. Review: A Globe-Spanning Musical Feast 2010-08-24T16:30:00Z “The Noise of Time” is not narrated by Shostakovich, but in a restricted third-person voice that sits on the composer’s shoulder. Music and memory 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Nelsons’s Shostakovich cycle continues with the sprawling 11th, which moved me to near panic when I heard it live in Boston. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z While the recorded voice of the real Shostakovich is heard, spouting Soviet propaganda, this work is no head-shaking satire of an artist who buckled under to the state. Theater Review: ‘Opus No. 7’ From the Dmitry Krymov Lab of Moscow 2013-01-14T21:58:16Z The musical style is minimal with likely fewer notes for the piano in 40 minutes of this late Shostakovich than in another composer's three-minute Pushkin song. Siberia's bleak, beautiful baritone sweeps across L.A. Opera 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z He will return to Chicago to close the orchestra season June 14-22 with programs of Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Beethoven, Paganini and Bruckner's Sixth Symphony. Muti looks to make up for lost time with 2011-12 CSO season 2011-02-14T06:00:00Z Shostakovich’s seven-minute Allegretto, composed in the early 1960s, bears its composer’s signature boldly in dark themes shared by the viola and the cello and quickly darting violin lines in Shostakovich’s sardonic folk dance style. Music Review: The Brentano String Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-22T21:57:58Z Among the memorable moments of this gravely moving work — the last Shostakovich wrote before his death in 1975 — are a series of stark unaccompanied sections that Mr. Bashmet played with eloquence and lucidity. Music Review: A Viola and a Piano in Search of Common Ground 2011-05-01T21:13:51Z What lured Mr. Barnes into hagiography when Shostakovich became his subject? Was Shostakovich a Martyr? Or Is That Just Fiction? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z After the musicians of the New York Philharmonic finished Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto on Thursday night, they did something they don’t usually do: They applauded the soloist. Review: When the Philharmonic Applauds the Soloist 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z On Jan. 28, 1936, Dmitri Shostakovich woke up to read a sternly worded condemnation of his music in the official Soviet newspaper, Pravda. Seattle Symphony to pair masterpieces by Shostakovich, Stravinsky 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z There are moments in the works when you wonder: 'Could this composer have become another Shostakovich or Stravinsky?' Terez?n: music from a Nazi ghetto 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z In Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony, under Andris Nelsons, its evocation of misty distances was startling. 10 Days at the Salzburg Festival, Music’s Disneyland 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z The second disc features earlier works of a very different aesthetic, including two neo-Classical sonatinas and a partita that evokes Shostakovich. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Andrew Parrott, Jeroen Van Veen, Ildar Abdrazakov and More 2014-02-05T19:10:59Z Shostakovich's Fourteenth Symphony is impossible to classify: part song-cycle, part secular rite for the dying, part hospital diary, it is without question one of the most harrowing 60 minutes of music ever written. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Petrenko – review 2013-05-05T15:50:50Z Weinberg went on to write five other operas — more than were completed by Shostakovich, whose “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” was condemned under Stalin’s Great Purge. Recognition for a Composer Who Captured a Century’s Horrors 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z A Doyle’s sale on April 23 will contain arrangements in Toscanini’s bold calligraphy for works by Shostakovich, Berlioz and Mozart, among other composers. Antiques: Paper Mills, Toscanini and Panoramic Art and Photographs 2013-01-24T22:46:54Z His specialties He’s known for intense performances of the standard repertory — classics like Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler and Shostakovich — more than contemporary music. What You Need to Know About the New York Philharmonic’s Next Music Director 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z These violin concertos – Britten wrote only one, Shostakovich two, the first of which is on this disc – date from the 1940s. Britten & Shostakovich – review 2013-06-08T23:05:25Z Though the Ninth is heady with aesthetic as well as existential nostalgia, it also prefigures the Second Viennese School or Shostakovich. LA Philharmonic/Gustavo Dudamel ? review 2011-01-30T17:46:00Z The first, of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, was recorded in 1959 at Boston’s Symphony Hall just after Bernstein returned from touring Russia with the New York Philharmonic. John McClure Dies at 84; Produced Classic Records 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Or “by” Shostakovich, whose “Festive Overture” offered a bracing fanfare near the program’s start, followed by neurotic keyboard scramblings? Carpenter energizes Kennedy Center with irreverent organ performance 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The journal of the Union of Soviet Composers scrambled to reprint Zaslavsky’s articles and devoted several issues to shaming Shostakovich for his “leftism.” The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Friday night’s concert, the second one devoted solely to the music of Shostakovich, proved spectacular indeed in every respect: the orchestra, the soloist, and the conductor. Seattle Symphony concert lives up to ‘spectacular’ title | Classical review 2013-05-18T15:37:36Z Playing from memory, Kavakos cleared one hazard after another in Shostakovich’s stupendously original score. Review: When the Philharmonic Applauds the Soloist 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z He's conducting a four-concert "Russian Spectacular" package, featuring works by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, plus a concert in the spring with Garrick Ohlsson as soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9. Seattle Symphony unveils 2012-13 season 2012-01-27T21:01:04Z Shostakovich knew him and probably found out that he had written the reviews. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Barnes’s Shostakovich is less emotionally violent, more lightly sarcastic: “Being a coward required pertinacity, persistence, a refusal to change—which made it, in a way, a kind of courage.” Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Leading the London Symphony Orchestra in two concerts of Mozart and Shostakovich at Avery Fisher Hall in October, Mr. Haitink elicited riveting, focused playing. Music Review: Bernard Haitink Leads the New York Philharmonic 2014-05-09T21:23:31Z He listened to Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Bartók; looked at art from Egyptian sculpture to Picasso with the same intensity; and he remembered! Charlie Parker: a genius distilled 2010-03-21T21:30:00Z It comes to a solid, chordal ending, but you have the feeling that this was just a pivot point, that Shostakovich would have moved on. Music Review: The Brentano String Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-22T21:57:58Z Shostakovich repeats this telling juxtaposition with the graceful, scherzolike third movement and the fast, angrily brusque finale. Music Review: Shostakovich Quartets as an Intimate Diary 2010-10-26T20:09:00Z In his brilliant productions for the Metropolitan Opera of Shostakovich’s “The Nose” and Berg’s “Lulu,” the South African artist William Kentridge filled the house’s enormous stage with animations, activity and dazzling sets. Monteverdi’s ‘Ulysses’ at the White Light Festival 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z For example, one program will pair the landmark Shostakovich Piano Quintet with U.S. composer Steve Reich’s “Different Trains,” a compelling 1988 work that employs recorded speech and train sounds as well as a string quartet. It’s the ‘golden age’ of U.S. composing, Seattle chamber-music fest director proclaims 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev were favorites, and done with aplomb; though there is no Mahler, Bruckner or Shostakovich here, despite his advocacy for all three composers, he made his way through Brahms and Tchaikovsky. 120 CDs Later, a Conductor’s Legacy Is Still Uncertain 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Before long, Zakrevsky is asking Shostakovich to “shake” his memory and “think a little harder,” especially when it comes to “the plot against Comrade Stalin,” of which he was “one of the chief witnesses.” Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Lin too has recorded the Shostakovich works, for Hänssler Classic. Music Review: David Fray and Lionel Bringuier at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-08T22:08:00Z After making his Carnegie Hall debut in the 1956 recital, which featured Bach, Hindemith and Shostakovich, he played there again at 15 and at 17. Paul Zukofsky, Virtuoso Violinist and Literary Executor, Dies at 73 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Here the bitter, almost hostile, ironic Shostakovich seems to come through in episodes of blaring fanfares and faux-triumphant marches. Review: A Surprise Conductor Makes a Superb Debut 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z If Elgar wove beauty from despair, Shostakovich mined something elemental from it. Review: George Shangrow memorial added to Seattle chamber fest's Eastside opener 2010-08-05T20:34:00Z Painting with what he calls Shostakovich’s “cold colors,” Nelsons traces the tragic arc of the monumental first movement, slowing building tension to a tightly controlled climax before receding in weary resignation. CD reviews: Two lyrical recordings of classic 20th-century scores 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z On Thursday, the conductor Long Yu, a major figure in China, takes the podium for a program offering Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, with the acclaimed violinist Maxim Vengerov, and Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Jan. 16-22 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Shostakovich worked under the threat of Soviet tyranny and artistic repression. Review: A Symphony Talks Politics 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The conductor of “Lady Macbeth,” Keri-Lynn Wilson, was also making her debut, and showed mastery of Shostakovich’s score, which is in a savage, if often eerily beautiful, mode that would have stunned Donizetti. Is It the End of an Era at the Metropolitan Opera? 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z His dogged quest to unearth the deepest intricacies in the symphonies of Beethoven, Bruckner, Mahler and Shostakovich reaps thrilling, often surprising performances. L.A. meets the future conductor of the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z She is an artist who adroitly channels fierce work with her penetrating, brilliant sound — her performances of works by Kodaly and Shostakovich provide ample proof — and she made a compelling case for the Prokofiev. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Guest Challenges Common Wisdom 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z In 2004, the BBC reported that a collection of thousands of tape recordings and manuscripts by the famed Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich was in search of a home. Guest conductor Olari Elts to lead SSO Shostakovich program 2014-01-24T01:35:08Z Mr. Denève seemed less fully at home in the moodier parts of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. Music Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-12T22:16:17Z The season will range from challenging contemporary works and new commissions by young composers to old favorites by the likes of Edward Elgar, Leonard Bernstein, Claude Debussy, Dmitri Shostakovich and Ludwig van Beethoven. Simon Rattle offers up musical 'tapas bar' for first season in London 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z M. T. Anderson is the author of books for young readers including “Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad.” A Graphic Nonfiction Account of Hitler’s Would-Be Assassin 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z The back-and-forth with Shostakovich is part of the fascination with Ustvolskaya’s place as one of the few Soviet women to gain prominence in the international music world. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Shostakovich, who wrote the libretto along with three others, was only 22 when he finished the opera, which had its premiere in Leningrad in 1930. Opera Review: 'The Nose' Pared Down to Its Essentials 2011-09-27T10:47:47Z Robert is also venturing into fresh territory with the music, which promises to range among pop, Shostakovich and country. 'Frozen' songwriters unveil 'Up Here,' the musical they couldn't let go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z There are conflicting accounts of Shostakovich’s reaction to the scandal. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z At the Brooklyn Academy of Music next month, the Debussy String Quartet will play three Shostakovich works in “Opus,” a collaboration with the Australian acrobatic troupe Circa. Chamber Music With a Challenge: Playing From Memory 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z It premiered new plays by Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, and scores by Aaron Copland, Shostakovich and, at its opening night, Leonard Bernstein. Perspective | At 50, Kennedy Center can no longer be a cultural island 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Weinberg’s writing here is like a somewhat romanticized Shostakovich, with sections of angular energy juxtaposed with big opulent melodies, like the tutti section at the start of the third movement, thick and bittersweet as molasses. NSO delivers a monumental and sobering salute to its former music director 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Shostakovich composed the work for his son, Maxim’s, 19th birthday and graduation recital at the Moscow Conservatory; it was a period of relative prosperity for the family. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2012-10-09T22:16:43Z The only comparable situation today is in dictatorships, behind what was the Iron Curtain — Shostakovich living with fear, with his bag packed, ready to go. How William Byrd Influences Music, 400 Years After His Death 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z The tragic ending, on an icy river, has some of Shostakovich’s most jarring and riveting music. Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Stone makes no mention of how Shostakovich was stifled, but he doesn’t overlook Stalin’s atrocities, including the 1940 massacre of Polish officers at Katyn. Television Review: Oliver Stone’s ‘Untold’ American History, on Showtime 2012-11-11T22:45:38Z The viola takes center stage on Sunday when the violist Marcus Thompson and the pianist Doris Stevenson perform works by Vivaldi, Schubert, Weber and Shostakovich. Classical & Opera Listings for June 26-July 2 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The shade of Shostakovich haunts many a page, never more so that in a grim, militaristic march led by shrill woodwinds. CSO and soloists shine under Dutoit, but Penderecki piece is dull 2011-03-18T17:25:13Z Shostakovich was the spiritual precursor to Ms. Xi’s moving Symphony No. 1, inspired by the 2008 earthquake in the Sichuan Province of China. Music Review: The Underwood New Music Readings at the Miller Theater 2010-05-24T23:34:00Z He made a case for this episodic 22-minute piece through his engrossing performance, from the opening section, all staggered chords and melodic fragments, through the final bitter dance, reminiscent of Shostakovich. Gidon Kremer and Daniil Trifonov Team Up at Carnegie Hall 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z It reappears in “The Noise of Time”, Mr Barnes’s brief, compelling inhabiting of the life of Dmitri Shostakovich. Music and memory 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Barnes’s Shostakovich concludes the novel a sort of rueful postmodernist, worried whether the game of codes and doublespeak he has been playing all his life has shielded him from true political or artistic commitment. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z This Shostakovich is a bundle of nerves, anxious to please authorities less out of an ironist’s sense of the game than out of deep and irremediable fear, built up over decades. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The music nods at Gregorian chant, doffs its cap to Shostakovich, gives a thumbs up to industrial metal, and is uniquely Scott Walker. Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z Ambartsumyan said he found a certain pleasure that the orchestra would play works by Prokofiev and Shostakovich, two composers who were repressed by the Soviet regime, for the festival’s closing performance on Sept. 11. An Orchestra Brings Harmony to a Region of Discord 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Shostakovich was too valuable to the regime to be silenced. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Barnes, who acknowledges “Testimony” as one of his major sources, gives us a mournfully sarcastic, frustrated Shostakovich, at once mocking of his Soviet patrons and stymied by his inability to break with them fully. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Yet she is often referred to in relation to Shostakovich, with whom she long traded off musical quotations and who would send her drafts for her approval. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The composer Shostakovich received a scathing critique of his experimentalism in 1936, infamously titled "Muddle Instead of Music" and published in the Soviet Union's most important newspaper. Artists' spat over Putin joins a Russian tradition 2013-02-03T10:01:13Z Bohuslav Martinů’s first cello sonata, also in D minor, felt like a twin for the Shostakovich piece, driven to a fast and furious ending in the parallel major. Review | Steven Isserlis keeps the music modern and strings old-fashioned in Library of Congress concert 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z This time it was David Requiro; and much as I enjoyed his playing last week in Ravel and Shostakovich, it was his response to Brahms that bowled me over on Saturday. Superb Brahms at Olympic Music Festival's Saturday concert 2011-08-28T16:07:04Z The orchestra also plays Shostakovich’s First Symphony and three selections from Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet.” The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z If the Fifth offers an idealist corollary to the defiance of Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony, its finest interpreters make that idealism sound plausible. Vaughan Williams: Complicated, but Not Quite Conservative 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Prince’s “When the Lights Go Down” began like a hand dance set at a social club, and an arrangement of music by Shostakovich provided an excuse to spoof both flamenco and ballet. Freewheeling fun with Savion Glover at the Music Center at Strathmore 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Pappano and the LSO certainly played their part in the unremitting focus of the Shostakovich, the winds interweaving eloquently with the solo violin in its bleak reflections. LSO/Pappano – review 2013-05-19T16:30:01Z It opened with Shostakovich’s slightly eccentric Symphony No. 6, written in 1936, after a serious strain in the composer’s relations with the Soviet regime. Music Review: Something Borrowed and Something New 2011-05-08T22:19:30Z Trying to duke it out with Serge Koussevitzky’s Boston Symphony Orchestra, Rodzinski competed to premiere the works of Shostakovich and Prokofiev, whose Fifth Symphony he was the first to release on record. The Conductor Who Whipped American Orchestras Into Shape 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z The opera was banned for decades in the Soviet Union, and Shostakovich feared being arrested. Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z And she followed that C major Prelude of Shostakovich’s, whose songlike simplicity proves deceptive, with Bach’s C major Prelude, which remains simplicity itself. Music Review: David Fray and Lionel Bringuier at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-08T22:08:00Z The winningest Grammy composer, in the best orchestral performance category, is Mahler, followed by Bartok and Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Debussy. Perspective | Orchestras don’t get record deals any more. The Grammys show a silver lining. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Shostakovich demands that full range in his quartets. Music Review: Shostakovich Quartets as an Intimate Diary 2010-10-26T20:09:00Z Here was a powerful program for aficionados, and a roomful of aficionados who got it, and after the searing might of the Shostakovich, with its anguished, bitter music, the ovation was heartfelt and prolonged. Inside the NSO’s grand return to Russia 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Leningraders heard Shostakovich's Seventh for the first time under absurdly apt conditions, given – as Ross writes – that the composer intended to "record in almost stenographic fashion the emotions of battle". The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z Next season he is scheduled to lead the orchestra in nine concert programs, including Wagner’s “Siegfried” and symphonies by Mahler, Shostakovich and Schubert. Jaap van Zweden Extends His Other Gig, 8,000 Miles from David Geffen Hall 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Still, this concerto requires differentiation between the many allusions and influences that Shostakovich crams together. Osmo Vanska Conducts the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z The third concert on Sunday, which included the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony, brought the series to a rousing close. Muti and the CSO at Carnegie Hall: Feel the love 2011-04-17T20:27:00Z Shostakovich managed to resuscitate his reputation with the next symphony he introduced to the public: the Fifth, still among the most beloved symphonies of the 20th century. Seattle Symphony to pair masterpieces by Shostakovich, Stravinsky 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z James Ehnes, violinist and Seattle Chamber Music Society artistic director, and pianist Andrew Armstrong provided some of Sunday’s most exciting music in a program of Beethoven, Debussy and Shostakovich. Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Winter Festival brightens these traffic-ridden, post-holiday weeks 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z I was amazed at how modern Shostakovich sounded, maybe not in a totally good way. ?The Nose,? and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera 2010-03-11T19:52:00Z Curious to know what the many people behind me were hearing, I walked the block or so to the back of the nave at the start of the Shostakovich finale to listen from there. Review: New York Philharmonic’s Memorial Day Concert 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Shostakovich's concerto, which followed, is for piano, trumpet and strings. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Controversially, Shostakovich portrayed Katerina’s murders and sexual liberation as justifiable responses to the awful environment of Tsarist Russia. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The Shostakovich trio ended up being a useful counterpart, as it also features hairpin shifts from elegy to sprint. Music Review: Ensemble MidtVest at Merkin Concert Hall 2014-04-13T21:45:34Z Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony began with a first movement even more obsessively tight-lipped than usual, so that the scherzo — no joke! — that follows came as an utterly logical release of tension. Review: At SSO, music both new and attractive 2011-06-03T18:20:54Z I did a Shostakovich Five in Poland at the beginning of February, and that music fit the atmosphere so precisely. An American Leads the Odesa Philharmonic to Berlin 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z The concert spanned Shostakovich at his jolliest, and at his most grimly uncompromising. Seattle Symphony concert lives up to ‘spectacular’ title | Classical review 2013-05-18T15:37:36Z In Ossetia, he even led Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony, completed during the German siege of that city in World War II and as charged a musical memorial as there is to Russian suffering. Putin’s Maestro, and the Limits of Cultural Exchange in Wartime 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Michelangelo's poems are made to be all about Shostakovich, who reflexively quotes his early music. Siberia's bleak, beautiful baritone sweeps across L.A. Opera 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Currentzis’s defenders have pointed to his performance of the Shostakovich symphony, which was written to remember the 1941 massacre of Jews near Kyiv by Nazis, as a statement of his views on the current war. A Maestro and His Musicians Face Scrutiny Over Ties to Russia 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Macelaru operated differently, treating Copland more in the manner of Shostakovich. The short and the long of the American conversation in Wynton Marsalis' Concerto in D at the Bowl 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Wednesday’s concert is made up of two current obsessions for Nelsons and the orchestra: Shostakovich, represented by his Symphony No. 4, and Bernstein, with his Symphony No. 2. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z But I don’t really agree, Roberta, that Shostakovich descends into bathos. ?The Nose,? and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera 2010-03-11T19:52:00Z The fact that Elts, 42, was also a member of Estonia’s last generation to come of age during Soviet rule makes him feels he’s someone “who can really say what Shostakovich maybe meant.” Guest conductor Olari Elts to lead SSO Shostakovich program 2014-01-24T01:35:08Z She was encouraged and mentored by the likes of Schnittke and Shostakovich, without sounding like either one. Juilliard Celebrates 32 Female Composers of the 20th Century 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z A similar sense of drive in 2000 found the Emerson playing the complete Shostakovich quartets in New York and London, culminating in a critically hailed, staged event called "The Noise of Time." 'The Emerson' returns to Seattle, promising world-class musical experience 2010-04-07T23:54:00Z The program focused on two tortured titans of the 20th century: Bernstein and Shostakovich. Review | Under Alsop, BSO offers new look to end the season 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z In a lull during a recent rehearsal for a rare revival of Shostakovich’s scorching “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” which opens Monday, Mr. Palumbo, 66, came upon a group of choristers waiting for a cue. Donald Palumbo, a Met Star in the Wings 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Shostakovich evokes frothy gallops, slithering waltzes and circus bands with a fractured modernist brilliance that equals Stravinsky’s. Music Review | ?The Nose?: Picture This: A Nose Goes Missing 2010-03-07T00:53:00Z There was room to quibble about Mr. Muti’s reading of the Shostakovich. Music Review: Berlioz, Shostakovich and G?rard Depardieu 2011-04-18T21:35:20Z Despite the title, it did not necessarily signify Shostakovich’s protest against his condition: the song was widely known to Soviet audiences as one of Lenin’s favorites. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z I suppose the dark undercurrent that briefly pursues Lenin in his countryside hiding place outside St. Petersburg in the second movement could also suggest the fear Shostakovich might have felt. Review: A Shostakovich Symphony Finally Reaches the Philharmonic 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Spiritual emancipation, Shostakovich insists like a good Soviet, is a bourgeois decadent concept. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z George Mathew, Music for Life’s founder and artistic director, conducted the Shostakovich for the Children of Syria Orchestra, 125 players representing some 70 orchestras and freelancers, all donating their services. Music Review: ‘Shostakovich for the Children of Syria,’ a Benefit Concert 2014-01-14T22:39:52Z The agreement was announced three days after the Boston Symphony and Mr. Nelsons released “Shostakovich: Under Stalin’s Shadow,” a recording on Deutsche Grammophon, their first with the label. Boston Symphony Extends Andris Nelsons’s Contract Through 2022 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Such was the case for Dmitri Shostakovich, whose “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” has certainly taken its place in the history books as a classic modern opera, but also as an infamous moment in opera history. Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z How eerily appropriate that the next two pieces were both studies in anguish: Elgar's Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor and the Shostakovich. Review: George Shangrow memorial added to Seattle chamber fest's Eastside opener 2010-08-05T20:34:00Z Mr. Stone also includes a less familiar newsreel clip of Shostakovich after he composed the Seventh Symphony, which became a hymn to the Siege of Leningrad. Television Review: Oliver Stone’s ‘Untold’ American History, on Showtime 2012-11-11T22:45:38Z Schoenberg rewrote Brahms; Shostakovich, when someone bet him he couldn't, reinvented Tea for Two by Vincent Youmans in well under an hour. In praise of ? musical reinvention 2011-01-04T00:13:02Z The last two movements, a sardonic waltz and a riot of frantic, scurrying figures, are trademark Shostakovich. Music Review: Moscow String Quartet at Frick Collection - Review 2011-10-04T20:14:39Z And not only through Beethoven; the second half of the programme is a performance of Shostakovich's confessional eighth quartet – agitated, difficult music for a child. Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z Then the cataclysm of the Holocaust will be represented by Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2, written in 1944. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in May 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z “It was as if I had been born anew,” Weinberg said of meeting the slightly older composer during the war, and the well-connected Shostakovich later saved Weinberg from execution in a convoluted Kremlin scandal. New York Premiere for a Long-Suppressed Opera 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Five preludes and fugues, from the 24 Shostakovich wrote, are original music, but Bach here remains in the background as a composer phantom. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z But his efforts established the intimacy, flexibility and expressiveness that made the string quartet a medium capable of encompassing his own congeniality and craft, Beethoven’s stormy spirit, Shostakovich’s hidden turmoil and Elliott Carter’s fearsome concatenations. The String Quartet, Reinvented 2010-02-27T03:36:00Z His website says he also has a November engagement leading New York’s Metropolitan Opera in Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.” James Conlon to quit post with Chicago Symphony's Ravinia Festival 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z The second evoked Soviet Russia at the height of the 1930s Stalinist terror, represented by Dmitri Shostakovich. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra deftly tours two eras of musical Russia In November and December that orchestra’s former music director, Esa-Pekka Salonen, led two premieres in a week, including a recently rediscovered Shostakovich opera. Music: A Call for More New Music From New York Philharmonic 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z He was not scheduled to join the Philharmonic this season; this weekend was supposed to bring Shostakovich’s mighty “Leningrad” Symphony. Review: Yunchan Lim, Teenage Piano Star, Arrives in New York 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z All of the work relates to, and augurs well for, his production of Shostakovich’s “Nose,” opening on Friday at the Metropolitan Opera. Art Review: Venerable, Small and Lots on Paper (Including Napkins) 2010-03-04T22:38:00Z The Soviets had the Bolshoi Opera and Ballet, they had Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Nureyev, of course, and in 1957, they had Sputnik. Perspective | At 50, Kennedy Center can no longer be a cultural island 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z “The Nose”— which Shostakovich started at 20 and finished within a year — is chock full of musical effects that are graphically precise yet often mysterious. As Plain as the Nose on His Stage 2010-02-27T03:36:00Z But Shostakovich, like his contemporary Sergei Prokofiev, was also protected by his status. Artists' spat over Putin joins a Russian tradition 2013-02-03T10:01:13Z Mr. Stoppard does not bring Shostakovich directly into the picture, but Mr. Previn does, with uncanny takeoffs on the master’s music woven into more generic writing. Music Review: Something Borrowed and Something New 2011-05-08T22:19:30Z But the memory of it was quickly swept aside by the Shostakovich that followed — in particular the similarly grand, breakneck finale. Review: The Rising Star of Conducting Arrives in New York 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z MacDonald was an alumnus of the New Musical Express but was no rock hack; he had already published The New Shostakovich. The best books on the Beatles 2012-09-26T07:00:15Z Bernstein's "Serenade" is seen by Joshua Bell as being "in the top violin repertory of the 20th century, up there with Prokofiev and Shostakovich." Seattle Symphony opens season with Joshua Bell, former Gov. Dan Evans 2012-09-12T02:11:03Z Shostakovich, with unmarked but somehow palpable trembling, returns, Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z It’s the last section of a trilogy Ratmansky created in tribute to Shostakovich and his troubled life under the Soviet regime. Review | National Ballet of Canada dazzles with exhilarating energy at the Kennedy Center 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Shostakovich was represented by the Second Piano Concerto, with Kirill Gerstein as soloist – a rather dour performance of a work usually described as "lighthearted". Philharmonia/Gardner – review 2013-02-19T18:09:42Z Although the music echoes Shostakovich “in both stylistic and ethical terms,” Weinberg’s voice “is quite distinct,” Mr. Fanning said. Recognition for a Composer Who Captured a Century’s Horrors 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z “When my Ninth was performed,” Shostakovich later noted, “he was deeply offended, because there was no chorus, no soloists. ... It was just music, which Stalin didn’t understand very well.” Guest conductor Olari Elts to lead SSO Shostakovich program 2014-01-24T01:35:08Z Dmitri Shostakovich once told a friend that he planned to compose 24 string quartets, one in each of the major and minor keys. Carducci Quartet takes on Shostakovich’s quartets at the Phillips 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z American Ballet Theater opened its fall season on a high note: Alexei Ratmansky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1,” the final dance in his moving, sometimes transcendent “Shostakovich Trilogy.” Review: Ballet Theater Revisits Its Past With a Hit and Two Misses 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Among the composers he’s tipped his hat to are Bruckner, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Wagner. Review: Christopher Rouse Leaves a Haunting Final Symphony 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z When the stirring central tune of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 12 first emerges, a few minutes into the piece, it’s very soft in the cellos and basses. Review: A Shostakovich Symphony Finally Reaches the Philharmonic 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Shostakovich wrote it as World War II came to an end, and originally planned something huge and triumphant, akin to Beethoven’s full-chorus Ninth. Review: The Philharmonic’s Conductor Returns to His Perch 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The lonely theme of the Passacaglia movement in the Shostakovich concerto also evokes what Willa Cather heard in the tender melody that Dvorak concocted for his Largo: “the immeasurable yearning of all flat lands.” Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann and Philharmonic Play Shostakovich 2012-11-25T23:04:20Z "Pale Fire" was not about fire but a play on Vladimir Nabokov's novel of deconstructed poetry transferred to a postmodern realm in which Shostakovich had some connection. The natural elements prove a breeze for Vicki Ray's Piano Spheres recital at REDCAT 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Mathew followed by pinning down the context for the Shostakovich performance firmly and explicitly. Music Review: ‘Shostakovich for the Children of Syria,’ a Benefit Concert 2014-01-14T22:39:52Z Mark Swed sat in on a performance at Disney Hall that featured a program of Beethoven and Shostakovich. Essential Arts & Culture: Slashing the NEA, Deborah Borda leaves the L.A. Phil, a very sweet ballet 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Performing music by canonical composers like Tchaikovsky or Shostakovich, she suggested, obscures the realities of Putin’s Russia. When Ukrainian Music Wasn’t Under Threat, It Thrived 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z The sardonic march of the Second is trademark Shostakovich, who alludes to Stravinsky in the violin solo of the Fifth Fragment. Music Review | Vladimir Jurowski: The Long and Short of Shostakovich, and Jazzy Ravel 2010-03-08T22:17:00Z Shostakovich’s dissonant, brutal score was instantly condemned by Soviet critics, and the work was not performed again in Russia until 1974. Music Review | ?The Nose?: Picture This: A Nose Goes Missing 2010-03-07T00:53:00Z The next program, “God & the Russians,” offers a typically intriguing mix of pieces, including works by Mozart, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Paul Juon. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 14-20 2014-02-13T23:37:00Z Things could have been worse: Leskov’s story, unlike Shostakovich’s opera, includes infanticide. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Shostakovich so gleefully mocks just about everyone that Kovalyov encounters that the noseless major seems almost sympathetic. ?The Nose,? and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera 2010-03-11T19:52:00Z Under Stalin, the police choir’s repertoire included agitprop, along with music by the superproductive Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Choir in Plane Crash Projects Russian Pride and Soft Power 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z As for composer cycles and special concentrations, Mr. Nelsons feels that Bruckner and Shostakovich have been underplayed by the orchestra in recent years, and he plans to fill those gaps. Andris Nelsons Gets Ready to Lead the Boston Symphony 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z But the Shostakovich symphony presents psychological as well as musical challenges. Music Review: A Visitor Arrives, Armed With a Sprawling Score 2011-02-11T22:52:48Z The concert is to include excerpts from “The Nutcracker” and “The Firebird,” as well as Shostakovich’s first cello concerto, played by Yo Yo Ma, the guest of honor. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Barnes’s view of Shostakovich conforms in every detail to the sentimental Cold War fable of a passive, pathetic yet saintly figure buffeted by an obtuse, implacable force. Was Shostakovich a Martyr? Or Is That Just Fiction? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Only the highest praise can be heaped on its scintillating staging of Cheryomushki, or Paradise Moscow, Shostakovich's comedy-satire on Soviet attempts at providing affordable housing in the 1950s. The Firework-Maker's Daughter; Hallé Orchestra/Elder; Cheryomushki – review 2013-03-31T00:07:03Z But the real stars are the musicians: Ms. Wolf, Mr. Barros, the cellist Andrew Janss and the violinist Victoria Wolf Lewis, playing rapturous accounts of Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich. Review: In ‘Anna Akhmatova,’ a Magical Interlude Reconjured 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z "The majority of my symphonies are tombstones," Shostakovich once said. The soul of Russia, by way of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z The ensemble comes to Carnegie Hall’s intimate Weill Recital Hall for a program of works by Mendelssohn, Thomas Adès and Shostakovich. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Jan. 31-Feb. 6 2014-01-31T00:02:45Z With the Stalinist purges moving at full throttle, Shostakovich backed away from some of his more avant-garde music, taking more care to adhere to the political line. Artists' spat over Putin joins a Russian tradition 2013-02-03T10:01:13Z For his Philharmonic debut, he leads a program of Jimmy López, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky. Classical Music and Opera This Fall: 59 Programs, Premieres and More 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Yet both are revolutionary works of art: Beethoven's for being the first symphony to include a chorus; Shostakovich for his failure to provide one. Hallé/Znaider – review 2012-05-25T18:06:41Z They ran through the entire program of works by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Sean Shepherd with remarkable aplomb, conducted by James Ross, the director of the orchestra and charged with its initial training. National Youth Orchestra Braces for Its Debut 2013-07-10T21:45:41Z At first glance, Shostakovich’s opera “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” might seem easy to sell. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z The Verdi and Britten Requiems and the various recordings of the Shostakovich Fourteenth are also memorable. Galina Vishnevskaya obituary 2012-12-11T18:32:40Z The first is the return of his “Shostakovich Trilogy,” made for the company in 2013. Ratmansky and Lil Buck on the Spring Dance Calendar 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z His careful readings of Shostakovich's Fourth and Fifth symphonies represent the clearest possible refutation of the idea that music is a non-representational art form. The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z Hearing them performed in sequence was like reading entries of Shostakovich’s diary. Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z The Shostakovich we played a couple of movements of during childhood — actually we played the whole thing when we were about 18. A Sister and Brother Choose Repertoire by Feeling and Listening 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z In joint productions Mr. Gelb placed some bets on relative newcomers with excellent results, especially in Shostakovich’s bleak comedy “The Nose.” Peter Gelb?s Tenure at Metropolitan Opera 2011-11-25T15:13:27Z They appear in various forms throughout the first movement of Shostakovich’s symphony: The Tortured History Behind Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Despite the heavy weight of Stalinist repression, Shostakovich and Prokofiev created some of the most cherished, experimental and at times critical music of the 20th century. Artists' spat over Putin joins a Russian tradition 2013-02-03T10:01:13Z During one percussion eruption audiences will see Shostakovich on screen hammering away at a piano. As Plain as the Nose on His Stage 2010-02-27T03:36:00Z Mr. Wolff and his young charges closed the concert with a bang-up performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 6. Critic’s Notebook: Aspen Music Festival Embarks on New Era 2013-07-29T21:49:03Z When the orchestra in “The Passenger,” heavily influenced by Shostakovich, presents an ironclad, destructive edge, one senses that Weinberg is working from firsthand impressions. Alex Ross: Mieczysław Weinberg’s “The Passenger,” at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z On Dec. 9 she will present another chamber program that stays rooted in the Russian repertory, with works by Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff. A Violinist as Riveting in Silence as in Sound 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Shostakovich composed this work in 1947 and ’48, a period when his stock with the Soviet authorities who policed culture had once again plummeted. Review: A Surprise Conductor Makes a Superb Debut 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The music features jarring dissonances and a heavy yet agile orchestration that will be familiar to those who have heard Shostakovich’s operas and symphonies. New York Premiere for a Long-Suppressed Opera 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z On Saturday the redoubtable Mitsuko Uchida joins for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 on a concert that also includes Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. Classical Music Listings for May 16-22 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z “I had heard their performance of Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony from last year on YouTube, and I knew what they could do, so I challenged them. They have far” — gesturing into the distance — “exceeded my expectations.” National Youth Orchestra Prepares for Concerts 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z He brought his ever-impressive intensity and urbane lyrical polish to sonatas by Shostakovich and Franck. At USC and Disney Hall, finding the body and soul of the cello 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z But it was also using him for propaganda purposes, and its approach eventually turned into the sort of cat-and-mouse game that Shostakovich faced in Soviet Russia, alternating praise and censure. Celebrating Panufnik, a Polish Composer in London 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z In an interview, Darius said that his father had a shelf full of music theory books, and kept the scores of Bach and Shostakovich preludes and fugues next to his piano for reference. A Dave Brubeck Cantata Boasts Star Soloists: His Sons 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z They stayed — the ones who did stay — for rich and vivid Shostakovich, played by the National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Gianandrea Noseda without any soloist. Review | A concert that lives up to its promise: Trifonov rules at NSO 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z In an unannounced lecture by Litton, accompanied by musical examples played by the orchestra, Litton illustrated the Russian songs quoted by Shostakovich. Andrew Litton, conducting NSO, does justice to Russian program 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z “When I saw Prokofiev and Shostakovich on the program, I thought to myself, ‘perfect!’” he said. An Orchestra Brings Harmony to a Region of Discord 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z But from the start, this performance — especially Wang’s commanding, colorful playing — seemed determined to look below the bustling surface for hints of the bitterly satirical Shostakovich. Review: Carnegie Hall Reopens With a Blaze From Philadelphia 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z His keenly dramatic yet clear-headed approach brought welcome insights to Shostakovich’s sprawling score. Music Review: A Visitor Arrives, Armed With a Sprawling Score 2011-02-11T22:52:48Z The Bolshoi will also perform the American premiere of “The Taming of the Shrew,” choreographed by Jean-Christophe Maillot and with music by Shostakovich. Travel Ban Threatens a Lincoln Center Festival Play 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z In works of Schumann, Shostakovich and Stravinsky, Trifonov was magisterial, creative and unruffled. Review | Pianist Daniil Trifonov’s star continues to rise 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z On Thursday, the Emerson String Quartet plays the last five of Shostakovich’s 15 string quartets. Opera & Classical Music Listings for July 4-10 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Yet Nelsons achieves something rarer: a beautifully detailed, powerfully delineated and meticulously shaped performance that enforces structural sense on Shostakovich’s 56-minute symphonic sprawl. CD reviews: Two lyrical recordings of classic 20th-century scores 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z I was deeply affected to hear the Alexander String Quartet play all 15 Shostakovich string quartets in 2006 in the intimate concert hall at the Baruch Performing Arts Center in Manhattan. Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z It was the year a Russian audience heard the premier of Shostakovich’s Symphony #7 in Leningrad. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Looking back, she said, her last-minute Shostakovich was a turning point. After a Last-Minute Conducting Triumph, Her Own Orchestra 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z What’s at issue — in the Shostakovich wars, as in this novel — is the composer’s relationship to the Soviet regime. With ‘The Noise of Time,’ Julian Barnes takes on music, timidly 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z At the time, Shostakovich was swept up in atonality. Music Review: A Cozy Chamber Concert Buoyed by Lapping Water 2011-04-18T21:55:54Z The Philharmonic players seemed anything but galvanized on Thursday during the Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich works. Music Review: Lorin Maazel and New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-01-25T22:03:14Z “Everyone was looking for something between the lines” — a practice that still goes on in interpreting Shostakovich’s work. Guest conductor Olari Elts to lead SSO Shostakovich program 2014-01-24T01:35:08Z Ms. Lin played excerpts from the first book of Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” and from that Opus 87 of Shostakovich, which was modeled after “The Well-Tempered Clavier.” Music Review: David Fray and Lionel Bringuier at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-08T22:08:00Z Later, he dabbled in Bruckner and Shostakovich but resisted Mahler, Bartok, Schoenberg, “Wozzeck.” A Life of Toscanini, Maestro With Passion and Principles 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Even the directions in which he said he wanted to expand hew to the standards: more Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Bartok, Rachmaninoff. One of the World’s Great Maestros Is Suddenly a Free Agent 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Only when you hear a terrific string quartet performing works by Haydn, Shostakovich or Bartok in a hall that seats just a few hundred do you really understand what makes “chamber music” so overwhelming. Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Using Carnegie’s acoustics, he emphasized Shostakovich’s prismatic writing, as when the cautiously eerie beginning of the fourth prelude was juxtaposed with a hazy, enveloping account of its partner fugue. Review: Igor Levit Takes on a Shostakovich Kaleidoscope 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z The score, by Dmitri Shostakovich, and the libretto date from 1935. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bright Stream’ at the Met 2012-05-30T21:28:34Z Nazis and Soviets alike condemned modernism, favouring nationalistic conservatism and social realism respectively; Shostakovich shines for steering a tricky path through Stalinist aesthetics without losing his style. TV highlights 19/02/2013 2013-02-19T06:59:01Z The most recent triumph was a magnificent traversal of the last five Shostakovich quartets in a concert at Tanglewood in July. Emerson Players and Yefim Bronfman Play Carnegie Hall 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z But in writing an ambitious symphony for a major orchestra, Copland fell under the spell of Mahler and Shostakovich. New York Youth Symphony Plays Copland’s Symphony No. 3 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z There’s also a wide range of distinguished music — the composers of the last three weeks have included Glinka, Chopin, Delibes, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Stravinsky, , Hindemith, Ellington, Shostakovich and Thomas Adès. Dance Review: Music as a Gallant Ballet Partner 2011-02-03T22:30:10Z Shostakovich Symphony No 7, 'Leningrad' Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Petrenko Shostakovich wrote the seventh and longest of his 15 symphonies in the summer of 1941, following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 'Leningrad' – review 2013-04-27T23:07:01Z Studying under Shostakovich in the late 1930s and 1940s, Ustvolskaya, too, dabbled in socialist realism. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Zaslavsky’s takedown of “Lady Macbeth” is vulgarly imaginative, centering on Shostakovich’s desire to “tickle the perverted tastes of bourgeois audiences with its twitching, screeching, neurasthenic music.” The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The main work on Tuesday night was Shostakovich’s awesome and often baffling Symphony No. 4 in C minor. The Mariinsky in Two All-Russian Programs at Carnegie Hall 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The young Mr. Kim played with admirable purity of tone and accuracy, and if the music could have used more bite at times, Mr. Kim has plenty of time to learn about Shostakovich’s sardonicism. Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music Play Strauss’s ‘Ein Heldenleben’ 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Just as Zemlinsky was looking backward to Brahms, the young Shostakovich seemed to conjure Tchaikovsky or Rimsky-Korsakov at times in his first piano trio, a single movement inspired by a youthful romantic attachment. Review | Czech piano trio makes Washington debut 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Schwarz led the orchestra in Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5, reversing the order of the four movements. All-Star Orchestra Records Series for WNET 2012-08-31T21:48:03Z Shostakovich, after all, didn’t make a public announcement that he’d be quoting a ditty from a favorite work of Hitler’s. An Argument for Hearing a Work With a Nazi Reference 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z “Temirkanov was interested in soul,” Smith said, while Alsop “was interested in the old rudiments of accuracy and balances. She could get fabulous results; I heard some great Schumann, Shostakovich.” A Trailblazing Female Conductor Is Still Alone on the Trail 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z There, Shostakovich, who was 13 years older, became Weinberg’s most important champion. ‘The Passenger’ at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Already Mr. Nelsons is introducing composers who were never concerns of his predecessor, James Levine, but who reflect his own education in Russia and Germany: Shostakovich, for one, and Bruckner. At the Boston Symphony, Andris Nelsons Embraces Tradition but Looks Ahead 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z I am not persuaded that just because thematic material in Shostakovich's Sixth contains the same four sequential pitches as the opening of... The Tortured History Behind Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The Shostakovich quartets require, first and foremost, perfect intonation. Fastidious playing by the Danish String Quartet at Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater Charles Dutoit celebrates his 20th and final summer as artistic director and principal conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra's season with a farewell concert of Shostakovich, Debussy, Respighi and Korngold's Violin Concerto. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z Barnes allows Shostakovich a moment of courage: “I have always said, and it has been one of the fundamental principles of my life, that I would never join a party which kills.” Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Several years ago, he tells me, he abandoned listening to Beethoven and Shostakovich quartets as he worked, in favour of Bach and Schubert. Leon Kossoff's love affair with London 2013-04-27T10:00:04Z Shostakovich suffered a lot from being persecuted by the authorities. She Wrote for the Piano’s Extremes: Bronfman on Ustvolskaya 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z To hear the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra play a program of Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich is tantamount to a cliche. The St. Petersburg Philharmonic moves beyond cliches 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z He played just one work: Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. Review: Igor Levit Takes on a Shostakovich Kaleidoscope 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Yet somehow it is the awe-inspiring darkness of Shostakovich in old age, after a lifetime of suffering and rage, that communicates the essence of Michelangelo – the genius who flayed himself. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z The performance brought forth the huge emotional range of the Shostakovich — and brought down the house, as well. Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Winter Festival brightens these traffic-ridden, post-holiday weeks 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Multiple works by Beethoven, Brahms, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky are also on the roster. Seattle Chamber Music Society’s 2013 summer fest lineup 2013-03-29T23:20:26Z Then Mr. Ratmansky presents a composite trio of works to separate compositions by Shostakovich for American Ballet Theater at the Metropolitan Opera House on May 31. Three Stars of World Dance Traditions Converge on New York 2012-09-09T04:55:01Z He went on to the Moscow Choral School and then the Moscow Conservatory, growing up “beneath the two suns of Shostakovich and Prokofiev.” Music: The Making of a Maestro Moment 2011-02-16T12:30:06Z For all its brilliance, “The Nose” is hard to warm up to and will probably never rival “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” Shostakovich’s only other opera, in popular appeal. Opera Review: 'The Nose' Pared Down to Its Essentials 2011-09-27T10:47:47Z But give Mr. Gelb credit for bringing audiences seminal works from the 20th century, like Shostakovich’s black comedy “The Nose,” Janacek’s “From the House of the Dead” and Philip Glass’s “Satyagraha.” Emboldened Orchestras Embracing the New Music 2011-12-09T17:01:08Z Some have also faced calls to scrap works by Russian composers, including revered figures like Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Mussorgsky. Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z A Breathless Boccherini, an Unnerving Shostakovich The Moscow Virtuosi lived up to their name on Sunday afternoon, offering dynamite performances for a large and enthusiastic, mostly Russian-speaking audience at Avery Fisher Hall. Music Review: A Breathless Boccherini, an Unnerving Shostakovich 2010-11-23T23:40:00Z At the Metropolitan Opera House on Tuesday, American Ballet Theater presented Mr. Ratmansky’s “Shostakovich Trilogy” in its complete form for the first time since the work’s debut performances in 2013. Review: ‘Shostakovich Trilogy,’ Where Joy and Grief Flourish 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Ratmansky, a Shostakovich specialist, has since deepened his view of the composer’s inner world. New York City Ballet Opens a Spring Gala, and Some Umbrellas 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Heard in that context, the Shostakovich became all the more immediate. A Road Trip to Sample America’s Many, Many Music Festivals 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Instead, Shostakovich offered five short, playful and sometimes sarcastic lightweight movements. Russia's secret weapon? Valery Gergiev and the rapturous music of the Mariinsky Orchestra 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z In “The Nose,” Shostakovich, who fashioned the libretto with three other writers, does the opposite. Music Review | ?The Nose?: Picture This: A Nose Goes Missing 2010-03-07T00:53:00Z Bach collides with Shostakovich, Wagner and cabaret; Faust dies horribly, "his brains stuck to the wall", to what is probably the noisiest tango ever written. BBCSO/Sinaisky ? review 2011-02-22T18:20:48Z The quartet’s 2000 recording of the complete Shostakovich quartets is responsible for two of the Grammys on Mr. Drucker’s shelf; it won in the categories of best chamber and best classical recording. Emerson String Quartet Adapts to a Different Cellist 2014-04-11T21:23:13Z UK band Clean Bandit are introducing works by the likes of Mozart and Shostakovich to young audiences with their blend of electronic beats and classical strings. The classic pop of Clean Bandit 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z “Honestly, people don’t like this building,” said Galina Logutenko, a deputy director of the storied St. Petersburg Philharmonic, which plays at the Shostakovich Philharmonic Hall. Mariinsky II Is Set to Open in St. Petersburg 2013-05-01T21:48:51Z Thanks to much post-“Testimony” writing, Shostakovich’s Fifth has become a privileged point of contention. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Shostakovich flagrantly abuses these genres to allegorize how most of the men in his opera treat most of the women. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z His atmospheric reading is beautifully, if rather closely, captured by DG’s recording, edited from live performances in April in Boston’s Symphony Hall for the start of a recorded cycle of the Shostakovich symphonies. CD reviews: Two lyrical recordings of classic 20th-century scores 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z But after the war, the screws tightened on Shostakovich again with the notorious Zhdanov decree, where he was denounced as a bourgeois sympathiser. The Rest is Noise festival: The Art of Fear 2013-05-08T20:42:52Z “He was his normal jovial self,” the musician said, until a moment in the third movement of the Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, when he pitched forward off the podium. ArtsBeat: Riccardo Muti to Have Surgery 2011-02-04T21:47:59Z Every so often, Shostakovich’s unruly score would come to a halt as Serebrennikov interjected like the voice of God, booming through speakers but unseen. A New Era Takes Shape at the World’s Opera Capital 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z On March 12, he will lead the orchestra in an evening of Colin Matthews, Gershwin and Shostakovich; and on March 15 he will conduct them as they play Britten, Shostakovich and Sibelius. Performance Guide 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z In vast swaths of the Brahms Sonata No. 1 and the Shostakovich Sonata, Bellom simply engulfed the poor cellist. Review | Both musicians shine, but balance between piano and cello is off 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z If the number set to Queen’s “Bicycle Race” were set to classical music — say, to Shostakovich — instead, it might be easier to recognize as an exemplary construction of contemporary ballet. Trey McIntyre Puts His Company to Rest at Jacob’s Pillow 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z He doesn’t pretend that Shostakovich’s greatness may not be so much in defiance but in the vagaries of survival, psychic as well as physical. Salonen's 'Pollux' supplies some grunge for L.A. Phil tour 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z The biggest work in Gardner's programme was Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, a performance whose almost self-conscious restraint failed to solve the enigma of the finale. Proms 42 & 43: BBCSO/Gardner; St John Passion 2010-08-18T11:03:00Z But in the context of the terrifying control exerted by the party and the state on artists such as Shostakovich, they are radical ideas. Music and memory 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In March, the authorities in Moscow interrupted a concert in which you and several other artists were playing works by Shostakovich and Mieczysław Weinberg. A Russian Pianist Speaks Out Against the War From Home 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Shostakovich looms large in the grotesque waltz of the second movement. Music Review: A Breathless Boccherini, an Unnerving Shostakovich 2010-11-23T23:40:00Z “Weinberg, friend of Shostakovich, opera about Auschwitz,” Mr. Pountney recalled thinking, in a recent telephone conversation. New York Premiere for a Long-Suppressed Opera 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Shostakovich may have described his ninth symphony as “a merry piece.” Guest conductor Olari Elts to lead SSO Shostakovich program 2014-01-24T01:35:08Z Britten's pastoral vision inspired Arvo Pärt's Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten, also performed here, alongside Symphony No 5 by Shostakovich, written when the two composers were great friends and admirers of each other's work. TV highlights: Digging For Britain 2010-08-18T23:05:00Z But, as Schoenberg said of Shostakovich, he is “a composer born.” Musical Chairs 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Besides providing even more intensity, a bit more gas at this point would have highlighted the connection to the Shostakovich’s furiously, perhaps bitterly celebratory fourth-movement Burlesque. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann and Philharmonic Play Shostakovich 2012-11-25T23:04:20Z The Shostakovich of history did not write badly for them and well for himself. Was Shostakovich a Martyr? Or Is That Just Fiction? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z This week, he conducts the UW Symphony in works by Haydn and Shostakovich. What our writers love this week 2011-02-16T22:50:12Z The slow movement sounded curiously Russian, its meandering phrases taking on some of the aridity we associate with Shostakovich at his most despairing. LPO/Wigglesworth – review 2013-05-02T17:22:24Z That may be true: the symphony contained appealing ideas and sounds, many seemingly on loan from Shostakovich. Music Review | American Symphony Orchestra: Loosening the Reins on Composers After Stalin 2010-03-01T05:50:00Z It is here that Shostakovich began to find a less overtly reckless voice after the potentially lethal turmoil surrounding the previous two symphonies. LSO/Elder 2010-06-14T21:31:00Z The tone is brittle and noisy, recalling early Shostakovich ballets such as The Bolt and The Age of Gold, the vocal writing seems deliberately machine-like and inexpressive. Philharmonia/Salonen – review 2013-05-17T15:50:26Z Born in Moscow in 1932, Mr. Shchedrin decided to become a composer when he traveled as a nine-year-old to Samara with his father, who was secretary to Dmitri Shostakovich on his Leningrad Symphony. Music: The Making of a Maestro Moment 2011-02-16T12:30:06Z Maybe it’s that Shostakovich fugue on the soundtrack — Shostakovich! ‘Deadpool’ Isn’t the Only Solution. But ‘Batman v Superman’ Is the Problem 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z The big birds, and the torrential splash, came a little later, in Varèse’s “Amériques,” offered at its most deafening, and in Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, at its most unsettling. Salonen's 'Pollux' supplies some grunge for L.A. Phil tour 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z The play also recalls the shock to Shostakovich's system of hearing his great opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, denounced in 1936 as "a deliberately discordant muddle of sounds". Review | Theatre | A Model for Mankind | Cock Tavern, London | Michael Billington 2010-03-29T23:21:00Z So much of Shostakovich’s work was shaped by his political context. She Wrote for the Piano’s Extremes: Bronfman on Ustvolskaya 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z |
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