Shostakovich

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• Yet several works were commissioned for smart urban dance, music-theatre and performance-art events; five of the 22 tracks are clever transcriptions of Shostakovich piano pieces.
• And so to the evening's highlight: Shostakovich's extraordinary Trio No 2 in E minor.
• Again, the harsh conditions under which Shostakovich was compelled to represent himself are often found transposed to the prosaic sphere of paranoid nostalgia.
• Like his film scores, this is Shostakovich in a populist vein.
• In a beautiful and affecting way, Shostakovich evokes the sounds of the Moonlight Sonata, the triplet arpeggios and the dotted rhythm of the main theme, without really quoting it.
• Pianist Damon Denton scampers through Shostakovich's figurations with a keen ear for melody and texture.
• Actually I can tell you my plan to choreograph the other Shostakovich ballets.
• Boldly modern trumpet fanfares (à la Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto) resound in the ‘Dance of Poison’.
• In the spirit of Shostakovich's last symphony, Vainberg quotes trumpet fanfares from well-known works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Bizet, and Mendelssohn.
• It was an almost slapstick comedy in which Stalin and his cultural henchman Zhdanov confront Prokofiev and Shostakovich.