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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: RRC1387
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 ‘The Year 1905’ Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra - Yevgeny Mravinksy (conductor) The sheer insight Mravinsky brings to Shostakovich’s music is ever present in this recording of the composer’s flag waving symphony. Available at super budget price. |
| 15.00 eur Buy |
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ID: RRC2028
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Shostakovich Quartet. |
| 25.00 eur Buy |
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ID: RRC2029
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection:
The Great Composers
Subcollection: QuartetThe Shostakovich Quartet
Andre Shishlov, violin
Sergei Pishchugin, violin
Alexander Galkovsky, viola
Alexander Korchagin, cello |
| 25.00 eur Buy |
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ID: RRC3005
CDs: 3
Type: CD
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Tatiana Nikolayeva, piano. |
| 30.00 eur Buy |
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ID: RRC5001
CDs: 5
Type: CD
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plus Two Pieces Op.36. |
| 38.00 eur Buy |
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ID: SC4001
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano and SaxophoneCD/CD-ROM with free music to play
Semplice - Italian for ‘simple’, this is the Saxophone Classics inaugural release. Jeffery Wilson renowned saxophone player, composer and educator includes a wealth of music with different styles. From the classical idiom of Mendelssohn and Rachmaninov, the folk elements by Albeniz and Balogh together with jazz pieces by Heath and Street. This programme gives an over-view of the very best pieces often used for educational purposes or examinations. The CD includes a performance of ‘Champs Hill’ by Jeffery Wilson, for Saxophone duet and piano with guest artist Victoria Soames Samek. This is included on the disc as a free music PDF file.
This wonderful new disc will be eagerly sought by both pupils and teachers alike and with those who love the distinctive sound of one of the most popular of instruments - the saxophone. |
| 15.00 eur Buy |
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ID: SIGCD052
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
The Great Composers
Signum Records are delighted to present the second recording on SignumClassics of the CBSO, under the direction of Mark Elder.
In his youth Shostakovich devoted much time and energy to composing for the theatre and the cinema, writing for an astonishing variety of movies, political plays, satires, the music-hall and the ballet.
The music for Nikolai Akimov’s outrageous and scandalous production of Hamlet was composed in the winter of 1931 - 1932. Akimov had decided that tragedy was irrelevant to the modern Soviet audience, and therefore presented the play as a satirical farce in which the play was turned up-side-down, by reversing all the usual assumptions about the plot and how it should be acted. The alterations to Shakespeare’s work are reflected in the titles of several of Shostakovich’s numbers. He was asked to provide music for scenes that Shakespeare only refers to but which Akimov insisted on representing on stage, for example the feast where "funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables". The overall character of Shostakovich’s music is often abrasive and satirical, and flippant just where we would expect the music to be more serious. There are also some funny moments, with particular sharp parodies of various well-known musico-theatrical clichés.
In 1954 Kozintsev had also attempted to direct a staged version of Hamlet. For this occasion he decided to reuse music that Shostakovich had already written for him to use in a staged production of King Lear in 1941. All that Kozintsev asked Shostakovich to add for the 1954 Hamlet were a Gigue and a Finale, both of which are included on this recording as an appendix to the music for Akimov’s 1932 production.
The music that Shostakovich wrote for Kozintsev’s 1941 King Lear production inhabits a strange and transitional world, halfway between the bright and brilliant sarcasm of the music for Akimov’s Hamlet of ten years earlier and the more soberly functional manner of his post-war theatrical music. Gone is most of the cheekiness, the fondness for the experimental and the grotesque. There is much in this often oppressively dark music that is characteristic of what was by now Shostakovich’s public symphonic manner.
Perhaps the most powerful and unusual part of the score is the bizarre cycle of Fool’s songs, with which the Fool mocks the mistakes of his master, the King, in the course of the first three Acts. The music of these songs is as strange and quirky as the words they set. Taken as a whole, these ten songs make up a miniature cycle of sourly absurd, almost expressionistic outbursts for voice and orchestra. They seem to form a whole in themselves, standing apart from. |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: SIGCD135
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: OrchestreFestive Overture
One of Shostakovich’s most famous works originally composed for a concert to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the October Revolution in 1917.
Symphony No. 5
Its position as one of the 20th Century’s most popular and successful symphonic works is beyond any doubt, the triumph was immediate and greeted Shostakovich’s rehabilitation as a truly great Soviet artist.
The Philharmonia Orchestra is widely recognised as the UK’s finest orchestra with an impressive recording legacy. Vladimir Ashkenazy has a longstanding relationship with the orchestra, and in 2000 he was appointed their Conductor Laureate.
Philharmonia Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: SIGCD137
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Cello Collection
Subcollection: CelloJamie Walton's latest venture with the Philharmonia Orchestra, led by Alexander Briger, covers two more-contemporary Cello works; Shostakovichʼs Cello Concerto No. 2, and Britten's Symphony for Cello and Orchestra. Jamie Walton is quickly gaining international recognition for his work, being compared to Cello legends Rostropovich and Tortelier.
The Elgar society wrote about Jamie's last disc
“I really cannot praise this performance too highly. For faithfulness to the text, interpretative musicality, accuracy, ensemble and warmth and beauty of tone, Walton cannot be beaten.”
This new disc promises to be every bit as good. |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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