All Shostakovich articles – Page 6
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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 ...