From Dutch broadcaster Avrotros comes this video from the 2017 Utrecht Chamber Music Festival featuring this early Shostakovich work, the Two Pieces for String Octet, op.11.
Musicians:
Cellist and Shostakovich scholar Elizabeth Wilson examines the puzzle of the different editions
Young trio unearths a musical nugget of gold with Armenian rarity
Fierce playing captures all the brilliance and brutality of Shostakovich’s music
Ma plays the solemn D minor Prelude amid melting permafrost on Lower Tanana Dene lands in Fairbanks, Alaska
The sextet performs a chamber version of the work at the Solsberg Festival 2023
The violinist delves into Piazzolla’s exploration of sound and percussive effects, in the third and final part of his documentary series
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