All Shostakovich articles – Page 5
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BlogsVideo: Sergei Dogadin's winning Shostakovich performance at the Joseph Joachim Violin Competition
Sergei Dogadin gives his winning performance of Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto at the 2015 Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover.The 27-year-old Russian, who won first prize the Paganini International Violin Competition in 2005 and second prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011, receives a cash prize of ...
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ArticleNicola Benedetti performs Shostakovich's Gadfly Romance at the Proms
Violinist Nicola Benedetti, The Strad's September 2015 issue cover star, performs the Romance from Shostakovich's Gadfly Suite with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Last Night of the Proms 2012 in London.Watch Benedetti's bow go flying during a rehearsal with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Edinburgh.Subscribe to ...
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ReviewShostakovich: Violin Sonata op.134; Unfinished Violin Sonata; Andantino from String Quartet no.4 op.83 (arr. Dmitri Tsyganov). Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms (arr. Shostakovich). Braga: La Serenata (a
The Strad Issue: June 2016Description: Shostakovich’s Sonata and some cuttings from the composer’s workbenchMusicians: Sasha Rozhdestvensky (violin) Jeremy Menuhin, Mookie Lee-Menuhin (piano) Ilona Domnich (soprano) Alexandra Sherman (mezzo-soprano)Composer: Shostakovich; Stravinsky; BragaCatalogue Number: FIRST HAND RECORDS FHR 37Shostakovich’s Violin Sonata, written in 1968 as a 60th-birthday present for ...
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ArticleCarducci Quartet performs Shostakovich's String Quartet no.8
The Carducci Quartet performs the second movement of Shostakovich's Eighth String Quartet. The British ensemble is taking on the complete Shostakovich cycle this year to mark four decades since the composer's death - read about their project in The Strad's June 2015 issue, out now.Subscribe to The Strad ...
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ReviewFive Decades of Treasured Performances. Works by Barber, Bartók, Beethoven, A. Benjamin, Bloch, Brahms, Brustad, Chausson, Chopin, Debussy, Fauré, Gershwin, Grieg, Kreisler, Mendelssohn, Nín, Paradis,
The Strad Issue: August 2015Description: A celebration of an under-sung violinist now in her eightiesMusicians: Camilla Wicks (violin) various artistsComposer: Barber, Bartók, Beethoven, A. Benjamin, Bloch, Brahms, Brustad, Chausson, Chopin, Debussy, Fauré, Gershwin, Grieg, Kreisler, Mendelssohn, Nín, Paradis, Ravel, Sarasate, Scărlătescu, Schubert, Shostakovich, R. Strauss, Tailleferre, Tchaikovsky, ...
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ReviewShostakovich: Preludes op.34 (selection). Rachmaninoff: Eleven Romances (all transc. Urasin)
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: May 2015Description: Eloquent, expressively performed transcriptions of piano preludes and songsMusicians: Boris Andrianov (cello) Rem Urasin (piano)Composer: Shostakovich, RachmaninoffEnterprising, imaginative and brilliantly executed, this CD is almost faultless, even if the recorded sound is perhaps a bit too resonant for my taste. ...
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ReviewUnder the Stars. Works by Spencer, Bull, Debussy, Elgar, Bizet/Hubay, Hubay, Dvorák, Tchaikovsky, Kreisler, Fauré, Brahms, Shostakovich and Siem
The Strad Issue: April 2015Description: Starry violinist dazzles and charms in a disc of encore piecesMusicians: Charlie Siem (violin) Munich Radio Orchestra/Paul GoodwinComposer: Spencer, Bull, Debussy, Elgar, Bizet/Hubay, Hubay, Dvorˇák, Tchaikovsky, Kreisler, Fauré, Brahms, Shostakovich and SiemThis disc features a generous mix of virtuoso fireworks and sweetmeats ...
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ReviewShostakovich: String Quartets nos.14 op.142 & 15 op.144; Two Pieces op.36
The Strad Issue: March 2015Description: The Czech ensemble offers rapt readings of Shostakovich’s last quartetsMusicians: Pražák QuartetComposer: ShostakovichThe two Shostakovich quartets on this recording are described in the booklet as his last diptych, although the proofreader missed the wild inaccuracy of his dates, given here as 1841–1904, ...
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ArticleDavid Oistrakh performs Shostakovich's Violin Concerto no.1 cadenza
David Oistrakh performs the cadenza to Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto. Watch David Oistrakh perform Bach’s Double Concerto with Yehudi Menuhin. Read about David Oistrakh and Joseph Szigeti’s ‘s influence on Prokofiev’s violin concertos and sonatas in The Strad’s March 2015 issue, out now. Subscribe to The Strad ...
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NewsBorodin Quartet signs to Decca Classics
Long-standing Russian quartet will record major Shostakovich cycle
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ArticleThe Nightingale Quartet performs Shostakovich
The Nightingale Quartet performs the Adagio from Shostakovich's Third String Quartet. The Copenhagen-based ensemble is featured in The Strad's January 2015 issue, out now.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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ReviewShostakovich: Violin Concertos nos.1 & 2
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2015Description: Searching and haunting accounts of Shostakovich’s two concertosMusicians: Christian Tetzlaff (violin) Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra/John StorgŠrdsComposer: ShostakovichChristian Tetzlaff might have been born to play the Shostakovich concertos. His questing spirit, penetrating tonal inflections and clarity of vision are ideally suited to ...
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ArticleVadim Repin conducts and performs Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto
Violinist Vadim Repin’s Trans-Siberian Arts Festival in Novosibirsk suffered a last-minute no show in April, when conductor Valery Gergiev was delayed in New York. Rather than cancel the concert, artistic director Repin decided to conduct and play Shostakovich's Violin Concerto no.1 himself – the first time such ...
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ArticleEmerson String Quartet performs Shostakovich's Quartet no.3
The Emerson String Quartet performs the third movement of Shostakovich's String Quartet no.3 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. Cellist David Finckel, who stepped down from his post last year, has written a guide on building and maintaining a successful career. ...
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BlogsA Brief Survey of Summer Festivals Without All the Bother of Joining a String Quartet – Part Two
American String Quartet violist Daniel Avshalomov continues his blog tour of US festivals in the clean mountain air of Crested Butte, Colorado
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ArticleShostakovich: Violin Concertos nos.1 & 2
The Strad Issue: January 2006Musicians: Sergei Khachatryan (violin) French National Orchestra, Kurt Masur (conductor)Composer: ShostakovichAnd still they come. Recordings of Shostakovich’s claustrophobically forbidding First Concerto continue to emerge at a dizzying pace that currently shows no sign of abating. Although collectors should on no account miss hearing ...
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ArticleShostakovich: Violin Concerto no.1 in A minor op.99, Violin Sonata op.134, plus DVD documentary A People’s Music
The Strad Issue: January 2006Musicians: Ruth Palmer (violin) Alexei Grynyuk (piano) Philharmonia Orchestra, Benjamin Wallfisch (conductor)Composer: ShostakovichThe Shostakovich centenary has inspired a flood of new recordings of the A minor Concerto, although none quite compares with the truly astonishing account by the young Latvian violinist Baiba Skride, ...
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ArticleCello Sonatas. Weinberg: Cello Sonata no.2 op.63. Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor op.40. Boris Tchaikovsky: Cello Sonata
The Strad Issue: January 2006Musicians: Johannes Moser (cello) Paul Rivinius (piano)Composer: Weinberg, Shostakovich, Boris TchaikovskyThese are three sturdy works from the Soviet period. Moisey Weinberg (aka Mieczyslaw Vaynberg, 1919–96) and Boris Tchaikovsky (1925–96) both postdate the Revolution, but grew to maturity during Stalin’s cultural purges (the second ...
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