Shostakovich's Second Symphony was originally conceived as musical poetry and was composed to a commission of the department of the State Publishing House. Written on the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution this work was to commemorate the great turning point of 1917 in Russia, a time that h...
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For his new thirteenth symphony Shostakovich chose to set some texts by the young poet Evgeny Yevtushenko to music. The first of Yevtushenko’s poems that he used and which furnishes the subtitle of the symphony is dedicated to Babi Yar, the place where the Nazis slaughtered 34.000 Ukrainian Jews in ...
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The two symphonies on this disk share the use of sung text, which stands in contrary to most of the other Shostakovich Symphonies. The texts chosen for the construction of the fourteenth symphony are all presented in the Russian language which Shostakovich preferred most. They all point to an extrem...
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''The Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, led by Riccardo Chailly since 1999, is a very fine one, particularly when the players are all clearly giving 100 percent. Oleg Caetani also evidently has a strong affinity for this music, offering the kind of raw, over-the-top intensity characteris...
Preis: 100,00 €