All Shostakovich articles – Page 5

Review

Shostakovich: Violin Concertos nos.1 & 2

2014-12-22T00:00:00Z

THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: January 2015 Description: Searching and haunting accounts of Shostakovich’s two concertos Musicians: Christian Tetzlaff (violin) Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra/John StorgŠrds Composer: Shostakovich Christian Tetzlaff might have been born to play the Shostakovich concertos. His questing spirit, penetrating tonal inflections and clarity of ...

Article

Vadim Repin conducts and performs Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto

2014-08-12T00:00:00Z

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 ...

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Emerson String Quartet performs Shostakovich's Quartet no.3

2014-01-30T00:00:00Z

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 ...

Blogs

A Brief Survey of Summer Festivals Without All the Bother of Joining a String Quartet – Part Two

2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

American String Quartet violist Daniel Avshalomov continues his blog tour of US festivals in the clean mountain air of Crested Butte, Colorado

Article

Shostakovich: Violin Concertos nos.1 & 2

2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

The Strad Issue: January 2006 Musicians: Sergei Khachatryan (violin) French National Orchestra, Kurt Masur (conductor) Composer: Shostakovich And 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 ...

Article

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto no.1 in A minor op.99, Violin Sonata op.134, plus DVD documentary A People’s Music

2006-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Strad Issue: January 2006 Musicians: Ruth Palmer (violin) Alexei Grynyuk (piano) Philharmonia Orchestra, Benjamin Wallfisch (conductor) Composer: Shostakovich The 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 ...

Article

Cello Sonatas. Weinberg: Cello Sonata no.2 op.63. Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor op.40. Boris Tchaikovsky: Cello Sonata

2006-08-30T00:00:00Z

The Strad Issue: January 2006 Musicians: Johannes Moser (cello) Paul Rivinius (piano) Composer: Weinberg, Shostakovich, Boris Tchaikovsky These 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 ...