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...mail that in her Harvard recital she wants to “show and compare the Romanticism of Russian composer Arensky, pupil of Tchaikovsky, who is not well known and rarely performed, with the Romanticism of the well-known German composer Brahms.” “Shostakovich is one of my favorite composers to perform,” she writes, calling Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 “one of his most remarkable and marvelous pieces.” The internationally popular cellist was, in the 1970s, forbidden from leaving the Soviet Union for nine years...
...Book Award for his wildly ambitious, deeply serious panorama of life in Germany and the U.S.S.R. during World War II. With an empathy and insight that border on the psychic, Vollmann inhabits the lives of spies and generals, traitors and switchboard operators and artists (including the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich), all caught in the steel machines of war and fascism...
...treasure. Crammed into 113 sq m of a decrepit six-bedroom apartment in downtown Tallinn, capital of Estonia, are some 50,000 mostly handwritten pages of music and manuscripts, and 1,500 hours of unique audio and video recordings of music by the great 20th century Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. This cache of riches has been piling up at the apartment, home of Matsov's father, Roman, Shostakovich's favorite conductor. The works were performed and recorded against the will of Soviet bosses, who either banned Shostakovich or suspected him of "formalism" and other anti-Communist sins. The persecution...
...Shostakovich String Quartet...
...Shostakovich Jazz Suite...