Etiket: Shostakovich
The Russian composer Shostakovich did not sympathize with Stalin, as is often thought. The Netherlands Wind Ensemble gives him the honor he deserves
The Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich was a tragic man, caught between Stalin’s dictatorship and the Western ‘art mafia’ that accused him of collaboration. The Netherlands Wind Ensemble plays an arrangement…
Intimacy and refinement at NNO – Haenchen conducts Wagner and Shostakovich | review ★★★★☆
The North Netherlands Orchestra performed a special symphony and an equally special song cycle. Dimitri Shostakovich’ Fifteenth Symphony starts with a glockenspiel and develops differently than what one is used…
The Dudok Quartet emphasizes the contrasts in Bacewicz and Shostakovich with refined expressiveness ★★★★☆
The Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz wrote her Fourth String Quartet in 1951, Dmitri Shostakovich Fifth in 1952. Both works constantly swing the listener from mood to mood. Hope that blossoms…
Shostakovich already voiced Putin’s war rhetoric decades ago
With the Ukraine war in mind, the Northern Netherlands and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra focused these days on two different works by the Russian Shostakovich. It First Violin Concerto expresses…