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Shostakovich - Music for Viola & Piano | Hyperion CDA67865

Shostakovich - Music for Viola & Piano

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Label: Hyperion

Cat No: CDA67865

Barcode: 0034571178653

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 30th January 2012

Contents

Works

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Preludes (24), op.34
» no.10 in C sharp minor
» no.14 in E flat minor
» no.15 in D flat major
» no.16 in B flat major
» no.17 in A flat major
» no.18 in F minor
» no.24 in D minor
The Gadfly, op.97 (excerpts)
Viola Sonata, op.147

Artists

Lawrence Power (viola)
Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)

Works

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Preludes (24), op.34
» no.10 in C sharp minor
» no.14 in E flat minor
» no.15 in D flat major
» no.16 in B flat major
» no.17 in A flat major
» no.18 in F minor
» no.24 in D minor
The Gadfly, op.97 (excerpts)
Viola Sonata, op.147

Artists

Lawrence Power (viola)
Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)

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Listen to excerpts
Une Valse Vite (Prelude, op.34 no.15)

Viola Sonata, op.147 - II.Allegretto

Romance from 5 Pieces from The Gadfly, op.97

Lawrence Power makes the second of his appearances in this month’s release lists, this time with his regular pianist partner Simon Crawford-Phillips in the chamber music of Shostakovich. The centrepiece is the Viola Sonata, Shostakovich’s last completed work, premiered posthumously, on what would have been the composer’s sixty-ninth birthday. Its ravishing slow finale reworks the opening of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata - a tribute to a composer he revered.

Shostakovich the film composer also takes a bow, in the form of The Gadfly, with its famous ‘Romance’ beloved of violinists everywhere. That this works just as compellingly on the viola is triumphantly displayed in the arrangement made by Vadim Borisovsky (founding violist of the Beethoven Quartet) - one of the Five Pieces he recast from Shostakovich’s original.

Shostakovich’s 24 Piano Preludes have also proved irresistible to transcribers and here we have the seven brilliantly reworked by a pupil of Borisovsky, Yevgeny Strakhov.

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