Shostakovich - Choral Music
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 9414
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 25th March 2013
Contents
Works
Poems (10) based on words by revolutionary poets, op.88Russian Folk Song Arrangements (10) for soloists, mixed chorus, and piano, op.86c
Artists
Chorus of the Moscow Academy of Choral ArtTatyana Kravchenko (piano)
Conductor
Victor PopovWorks
Poems (10) based on words by revolutionary poets, op.88Russian Folk Song Arrangements (10) for soloists, mixed chorus, and piano, op.86c
Artists
Chorus of the Moscow Academy of Choral ArtTatyana Kravchenko (piano)
Conductor
Victor PopovAbout
The choral arrangements of Russian Folk Songs derive inspiration from the rich Russian folk culture, and Russian Orthodox Chant (though of course in a hidden way, as it was forbidden by the authorities). These are excellent performances by Russian forces.
These choruses are not (or not entirely) the tub‐thumping exercises in blatant jingoistic rabble‐rousing that you might expect, but contain many moments of poetry that make them secular rivals to earlier works by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov which draw from Russia's great Orthodox tradition of choral music.
In Stalin's Russia such an option was closed to Shostakovich, of course, even had he wished to explore it, but instead he used the poetry of Revolutionary leaders and imbued it both with his own, bittersweet harmonic vocabulary while never losing sight of the powerful character of Russian choruses for whom he would be writing.
One such chorus, Moscow‐based, performs the two cycles on this recording, and they naturally have the idiom, and language, under their skins.
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