Partituras dificil de Sikorski Musikverlag

En su ciclo de canciones Sol negro, de 22 minutos de duración, Alexander Raskatov interpreta siete poemas de Ossip Mandelstam, miniaturas inquietantes llenas de miedo existencial, oscuridad metafísica...

In the field of New Music, Sofia Gubaidulina's 'De profundis' has already achieved the status of a classic. It is not only an attainment of the New Music that instruments are capable of approaching th...

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...

En un principio, Shostakovich pretendía que su Sinfonía nº 6 fuera un monumental homenaje a Lenin para solistas vocales, coro y gran orquesta. Incluso un año antes de su finalización, anunció en la pr...

After giving in to massive pressure from state authorities in 1960 and finally becoming a member of the Communist Party, Shostakovich fell into a gloomy depression. His 8th String Quartet, composed in...