Category: Shostakovich

Shostakovich—Concerto in C minor for Piano and Trumpet, Op. 35 | Argerich and Guerrier

Dmitri Shostakovich completed his Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, Op. 35, in 1933. The concerto was an experiment with a neo-baroque combination of instruments. Martha Argerich, piano David Guerrier, trumpet Credit: Les beaux-arts channel – youtube.com/channel/UCYZvsJbjGmbfKCSp_BKQ6fg – Follow EpochTV on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpochTVus Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/EpochTV Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@EpochTV Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/epochtv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EpochTVus Gab: https://gab.com/EpochTV Telegram: https://t.me/EpochTV   * Click “Save” button below…


Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony: Do You Hear What I Hear?

On Jan. 28, 1936, Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich picked up a copy of the newspaper Pravda and found that he had been labeled anathema to the USSR. Shostakovich’s 1934 opera, “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District,” was “cacophonous” and “an insult to Soviet women,” Pravda claimed. His ballet of the same year, “The Limpid Stream,” was “infected with cynicism.”…