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Nel suo ciclo di canzoni di 22 minuti Sole nero, Alexander Raskatov mette in scena sette poesie di Ossip Mandelstam - miniature ossessionanti piene di paura esistenziale, oscurità metafisica e speranz...

Nel campo della Nuova Musica, il "De profundis" di Sofia Gubaidulina ha già raggiunto lo status di classico. Non è solo una conquista della Nuova Musica che gli strumenti siano in grado di avvicinarsi...

The Azerbaijani composer Franghiz Ali-Zadeh composed her piano solo work 'Landscape (Rising)' for the '8th International Adilia Alieva Piano Competition' in Gaillard (France). The world premiere of th...

This 'Trio Ballad' begins with constantly insistent, rapid sextuplets. The clarinet is a kind of an airhead (of all trades) and the viola is a type of demon. The piano provides a foundation for the ot...

Nine months after Stalin's death on 10 December 1953, Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 was premiered as his first symphonic composition since the end of the war. It was later interpreted by Solom...

The fateful Pravda article 'Muddle Instead of Music' appeared in January 1936, in which Shostakovich was directly attacked for his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, at which point the composer had comple...

In the summer of 1937 - during the dangerous time of Stalin's Great Terror - Shostakovich completed his Symphony No. 5. The Pravda article "Muddle Instead of Music" from January 1936, which condemned...

While the German Wehrmacht besieged Leningrad, Shostakovich wrote his 'Leningrad' Symphony. More than a million people died during the 28-month-long isolation of the city. Against this backdrop, Shost...

In September 1961, Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem 'Babi Yar' appeared in the Soviet Literaturnaya Gazeta, addressing the mass shooting in 1941 of more than 33,000 Jewish men, women and children on the out...

Shostakovich intendeva originariamente la sua Sinfonia n. 6 come un monumentale omaggio a Lenin per solisti vocali, coro e grande orchestra. Già nell'anno precedente al suo completamento, annunciò all...

Dopo aver ceduto alle massicce pressioni delle autorità statali nel 1960 e essere finalmente diventato membro del Partito Comunista, Shostakovich cadde in una cupa depressione. Il suo ottavo Quartetto...