Opis: Shostakovich: Choral Music

These choruses are not (or not entirely) the tub-thumping exercises in blatant jingoistic rabble-rousing that you might expect, but contain many moments of poetry that make them secular rivals to earlier works by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov which draw from Russia's great Orthodox tradition of choral music. In Stalin's Russia such an option was closed to Shostakovich, of course, even had he wished to explore it, but instead he used the poetry of Revolutionary leaders and imbued it both with his own, bitter-sweet harmonic vocabulary while never losing sight of the powerful character of Russian choruses for whom he would be writing. One such, Moscow-based, performs the two cycles on this recording, and they naturally have the idiom, and language, under their skins.

Other information:
- Only available recording as a single issue of these works.
- As an "obedient" Soviet artist, Shostakovich set texts of revolutionary poets to music. The result is vintage Shostakovich: under the blatant populist message of the text we hear a melancholy and tender heart. The choral arrangements of Russian Folk Songs derive inspiration from the rich Russian folk culture, and Russian Orthodox Chant (though of course in a hidden way, as it was forbidden by the authorities).
- Excellent performances by Russian forces.

Szczegóły: Shostakovich: Choral Music

Nazwa: Shostakovich: Choral Music
Producent: Brilliant Classics
Kod paskowy: 5029365941426
Języki: angielski
Format: 14.0x12.0cm
Oprawa: Plastikowa
Waga: 0.1 kg
Wykonawca: Tatyana Kravchenko, Victor Popov, Chorus of the Moscow Academy of Choral Art.
Czas trwania: 1:02:41
Typ głównego nośnika: AC
Ilość nośników: 1
Opis nośników:

1. Choral Music (CD-Audio)
   1. Boldly, friends, on we march! (koncert - utwór 01:09)
   2. One of many (koncert - utwór 04:21)
   3. Onto the streets! (koncert - utwór 01:29)
   4. The meeting in transit to exile (koncert - utwór 02:36)
   5. To those condemned to death (koncert - utwór 03:51)
   6. The Ninth of January (koncert - utwór 07:42)
   7. The valleys have become silent (koncert - utwór 04:46)
   8. They are the victors (koncert - utwór 01:33)
   9. May Day Song (koncert - utwór 02:44)
   10. Song (koncert - utwór 05:05)
   11. All of a sudden there was a clap of thunder over Moscow (koncert - utwór 02:04)
   12. Beyond the mountains, beyond the valleys (koncert - utwór 01:12)
   13. Out of the forest of spears and swords (koncert - utwór 02:35)
   14. Nights are dark, the clouds are menacing (koncert - utwór 02:22)
   15. A little cuckoo cuckoos (koncert - utwór 03:16)
   16. The Splinter (koncert - utwór 03:35)
   17. Fir grove, my fir grove (koncert - utwór 01:08)
   18. In my dear father?s green garden (koncert - utwór 04:04)
   19. I told my sweetheart (koncert - utwór 04:16)
   20. What a song (koncert - utwór 02:41)

Recenzje: Shostakovich: Choral Music