Shostakovich - Piano Concerto no.1, Symphony no.9
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Label: BR Klassik
Cat No: 900202
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 4th March 2022
Contents
Artists
Yefim Bronfman (piano)Hannes Laubin (trumpet)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Conductor
Mariss JansonsWorks
Piano Concerto no.1 in C minor, op.35Symphony no.9 in E flat major, op.70
Artists
Yefim Bronfman (piano)Hannes Laubin (trumpet)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Conductor
Mariss JansonsAbout
Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto features impressive pianistic virtuosity, bold experimentation, satire, and caricatures of different musical styles. The composer wrote it in the summer of 1933, only a few weeks after the completion of his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. He himself called it a "mocking challenge to the conservative-serious character of the classical concert attitude". This concerto in particular demonstrates the immense versatility and magnificent talent of the still carefree 26-year-old Shostakovich. He blends a wealth of musical thoughts and ideas into a colourful and fascinating kaleidoscope. Despite the wealth of different stimuli, the concerto does not seem chaotic or overloaded: the young composer effortlessly maintains the balance.
Shostakovich performed a similar (but this time highly dangerous) balancing act between creative work and conformity to the state in his Ninth Symphony, which premiered on 3 November 1945. Instead of the expected heroic, regime-conformist orchestral thunder along the lines of his Seventh Symphony, the "Leningrad”, the music heard here was playful, without pathos, somewhat witty, full of allusions – yet something did not seem quite right. This musical conundrum, full of ironic refractions and caricatures of melodramatic and triumphant music, was recognized by the censors as a masquerade, yet one that was not easily decipherable. Shostakovich had mocked Stalin without the latter noticing.
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