Shostakovich - Works Unveiled
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2550
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 3rd February 2023
Contents
Works
Symphony no.10 in F sharp major (Adagio)Funeral March in Memory of Victims of the Revolution
Pieces (4) for piano
Toska (Nostalgia)
Violin Sonata in G minor (unfinished)
Artists
Nicolas Stavy (piano, celesta)Ekaterina Bakanova (soprano)
Alexandros Stavrakakis (bass)
Florent Jodelet (percussion)
Sueye Park (violin)
Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
Works
Symphony no.10 in F sharp major (Adagio)Funeral March in Memory of Victims of the Revolution
Pieces (4) for piano
Toska (Nostalgia)
Violin Sonata in G minor (unfinished)
Artists
Nicolas Stavy (piano, celesta)Ekaterina Bakanova (soprano)
Alexandros Stavrakakis (bass)
Florent Jodelet (percussion)
Sueye Park (violin)
Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
About
The disc opens with the most substantial work on the disc, Shostakovich’s arrangement of his late, great Fourteenth Symphony (1969) for soprano, bass, string orchestra and percussion. With texts by poets including Guillaume Apollinaire, Federico García Lorca and Rainer Maria Rilke, the work evokes death, reaching great emotional depths. Rather than ‘just’ making a piano transcription for rehearsal purposes, Shostakovich included a percussion part as well as one for celesta, in order to reproduce sounds that would be impossible to imitate on the piano alone.
This is followed by the substantial fragment of a sonata for violin and piano dated 1945 and four short piano pieces composed around 1917-1919, which reveal a very young composer and demonstrate his surprising individuality and maturity. The final work on the disc is an arrangement of the opening 95 bars of Gustav Mahler's Tenth Symphony which Shostakovich probably made during the 1920s for personal study purposes and to demonstrate the work to his fellow members in one of Leningrad’s two Mahler Societies. In Shostakovich’s transcription for piano four hands, Stavy is joined by Cédric Tiberghien.
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