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Shostakovich - Complete Preludes & Fugues | Harmonia Mundi HMC97201920

Shostakovich - Complete Preludes & Fugues

Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HMC97201920

Barcode: 3149020201909

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 26th April 2010

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Contents

Artists

Alexander Melnikov (piano)

Works

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Preludes and Fugues (24), op.87

Artists

Alexander Melnikov (piano)

About

Shostakovich’s 1950 visit to Leipzig to attend the Bicentennial Bach competition, where he heard and was impressed by Tatiana Nikolaeva playing Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, served as an impetus to write his own set of Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues, loosely modelled on Bach’s. This he accomplished with remarkable, almost unbelievable speed upon his return home (it took him a mere three and a half months).

Nikolaeva, blessed as she was with a phenomenal musical memory, performed Op.87 for the rest of her life, and her name became practically synonymous with the work. This Op.87 from Alexander Melnikov approaches the work from first principles to come up with his own, eminently musical solutions.

…throughout op.87 we hear the voice of a tormented man, finding again and again the superhuman force to face life as it is – in all its variety, ugliness, and sometimes beauty.” - Alexander Melnikov

Contents:
CD 1: Preludes & Fugues Nos 1-12
CD 2: Preludes & Fugues Nos 13-23

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