Dmitri Schostakowitsch

El segundo movimiento de la magistral y subversiva Quinta Sinfonía de Shostakóvich, escrita cuando su carrera como compositor en la Rusia comunista se tambaleaba, podría sugerir que un compositor apen...

The Suite for Variety Orchestra, No. 1 (1956) is a work by Dmitri Shostakovich in eight movements that draw from the composer's earlier themes. The first of these movements is the delightful 'March' o...

Esta popular melodía de vals de la Suite para orquesta escénica de variedades de Shostakovich es muy conocida en todo el mundo y se utiliza a menudo en la televisión y el cine. He aquí una versión de...

Moscow, Cheryomushki is an operetta in three acts by Dmitri Shostakovich. It is sometimes referred to as simply "Cheryomushki" which is a district in Moscow full of cheap subsidized housing built in 1...

In the fall of 1928, Dmitri Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), completed this arrangement for orchestra, Tahiti Trot. The original music is from a song Tea for Two that Vincent Youmans (1898 - 1946) w...

Dmitri Shostakovich' opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District was with more than 200 performances very succesful in as well Russia as abroad. But in 1936 Stalin attended a performance and it was imm...

Dmitri Shostakovich' opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District was with more than 200 performances very succesful in as well Russia as abroad. But in 1936 Stalin attended a performance and it was imm...

The 1955 film of The Gadfly is no Soviet epic but rather a romantic history based on the novel by Ethel Voynich and set in fin de siecle Austria. Dmitri Shostakovich composed the Tarantella from The G...

The 1955 film of The Gadfly is no Soviet epic but rather a romantic history based on the novel by Ethel Voynich and set in fin de siecle Austria. Dmitri Shostakovich composed the Tarantella from The G...

Most of the music which Shostakovich used for his Ballet Suites was composed for the silent films in the early 30ies or was re-used from early opera's and ballets. The Dutch composer/arranger Christia...

Most of the music which Shostakovich used for his Ballet Suites was composed for the silent films in the early 30ies or was re-used from early opera's and ballets. The Dutch composer/arranger Christia...

Shosatkovich' ballet The Bolt is a full-length ballet with three acts and seven scenes. The ballet is an ironic tale of slovenly work in a Soviet factory. The composer himself fashioned a suite (Suite...

Shosatkovich" ballet The Bolt is a full-length ballet with three acts and seven scenes. The ballet is an ironic tale of slovenly work in a Soviet factory. The composer himself fashioned a suite (Suite...

El "Arroyo Límpido" fue, con diferencia, el más popular de los ballets de Shostakóvich. Sus melodías deliberadamente simples, armonías banales, ritmos sencillos y colores chillones hicieron que la obr...

The Limpid Stream" was by far the most popular of Shostakovich ballets. Its deliberately simple-minded melodies, banal harmonies, straightforward rhythms, and garish colors had the work playing succes...

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his second piano concerto in 1957 as a birthday gift for his 19-year-old son Maxim who premiered the piece during his graduation at the Moscow Conservatory. The eager, brilli...

As a contribution to the opera 'Armer Columbus' by German composer Erwin Dressel, Shostakovich composed two of his quirkiest and oddest early orchestral pieces. An energetic 'Entr'acte' in c minor (Al...

Shostakovich work on the String Quartet No. 8 proceeded simultaneously with incidental music to the film Five Days - Five Nights and in this quartet he for the first time resorts to quoting themes and...

Dmitri Shostakóvich compuso su Sinfonía nº 5 en re menor, Op. 47, entre abril y julio de 1937. Fue estrenada el 21 de noviembre de 1937 en Leningrado por la Orquesta Filarmónica de Leningrado. El estr...

El Gran Relámpago es una ópera inacabada, esbozada en 1932 por Dmitri Shostakovich, de la que sólo llegó a escribir la obertura y 8 piezas siguientes. Son suficientes para mostrarnos que "El gran relá...

El Gran Relámpago es una ópera inacabada, esbozada en 1932 por Dmitri Shostakovich, de la que sólo llegó a escribir la obertura y 8 piezas siguientes. Son suficientes para mostrarnos que "El gran relá...

A Dmitri Shostakóvich se le recuerda principalmente por sus obras orquestales y conciertos a gran escala, pero su contribución a la música de cine es también prolífica. Entre 1929 y 1970, Shostakóvich...

A Dmitri Shostakóvich se le recuerda principalmente por sus obras orquestales y conciertos a gran escala, pero su contribución a la música de cine es también prolífica. Entre 1929 y 1970, Shostakóvich...

Energy for DAYS! As a frenetic encore piece or a joyous sparkler for any place on the program that needs real pep, FOLK DANCES is a great choice! The fascinating shifting harmonies of 20th century mus...