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Lukas Sternath and Igor Levit, stunning in Shostakovich 10All images c Wigmore Hall Trust ...
Edward Seckerson chooses his favourite recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No.10 from the many available versions. Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No.10 in E minor was premiered by the Leningrad ...
On the evidence here, he’s clearly a remarkable talent and Levit is clearly proud of his protégé, sharing a programme where each performed a Prokofiev piano sonata before joining forces for ...
A concert commemorating the 80 th anniversary of the Second World War is bound to be emotionally demanding. Some orchestras would shy away from the idea, but that’s not the Britten Sinfonia’s ...
Reserved early by Ryan Moore off the pace set by Arizona Blaze (GB) (Sergei Prokofiev), the 6-4 favourite arrived late to collar that rival and the eventual second Comanche Brave (Ire ...
We have Stalin to blame for Shostakovich’s failure to write more ... Brenden Gunnell makes a vocally muscular Sergei, her lover, and Peter Hoare and Günther Groissböck are vivid as her husband ...
After intermission came Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, another work stamped with a personal signature — in this case, the four notes that spell out the composer’s initials. It’s been said that ...
SALT ROCK, W.Va. (WSAZ) - An investigation is underway after deputies found the corpse of an infant and a broken casket in a cemetery in Cabell County. Investigators with the Cabell County Sheriff ...
The extraordinary defiant poet Anna Akhmatova and the great composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich managed to survive Stalinism, but she was forbidden publication for much of her life and ...
And standing at the gateway to Shostakovich’s late style, it’s paired with the lyrical No 14, which breathes the vivacious warmth of its dedicatee, cellist Sergei Shirinsky, and sports a ...