Tag: Shostakovich
Classic and war: flutes, march
A mercenary squad named Wagner? Reason enough to think about the old relationship between music and the military: what makes classical music fit for military service? A guest post. source…
Piano concert in Berlin: Alexander Melnikov plays Shostakovich. – Culture
Dmitri Shostakovich’s art and his life in Russia were under acute threat after the Soviet cultural bureaucracy controlled by Stalin issued him with a kind of death sentence in Pravda…
Teodor Currentzis conducts Shostakovich and Purcell in Salzburg. – Culture
Teodor Currentzis doesn’t just conduct concerts, he doesn’t just work out the score and come up with new sound results. No, he celebrates this quest, like now in the Great…
Igor Levit plays Shostakovich in the Munich Prinzregententheater – Kultur
Dance and lightness, elegance and understatement, unrestrained virtuosity and brooding darkness: with this, the pianist Igor Levit leads his 1001 fans in the sold-out Munich Prinzregententheater through the “Twenty-Four Preludes…