Dimitri Shostakovich

1987 release ** Includes recordings of: Toshimitsu Tanaka-Two movements / Minoru Miki – TIME / Dmitri Schostakowitsch – Polka & Oportunist from his Ballets Nebojsa / J. Zivkovic – Drei Phantastische Lieder, Tensio, Strah*Ctpax

"Shostakovich's involvement with the cinema dates to his youth in Leningrad. Shostakovich composed his first screen score in 1929, three years after his swift rise to fame with his startling 'First Symphony', and the same year he began the Age of…

Bach's Fugue BWV 876 in Mozart's arrangement, Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 15 and Beethoven's Op. 127, played by the Danish String Quartet; recorded November 2016 at the Reitstadel, Neumarkt, produced by Manfred Eicher. First volume of the Prism…

Violist Kim Kashkashian and pianist Lera Auerbach play Auerbach's viola and piano transcription of Shostakovich's 24 Preludes op. 34 and her sonata Arcanum (2013), recorded in October 2013 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich.

Kremerata Baltica directed by Gidon Kremer play Mahler's Adagio from Symphony No. 10 (strings version, Riga, October 2001) and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14 with Yulia Korpacheva and Fyodor Kuznetsov (live, Musikverein Vienna, November 2004).

Shostakovich's Viola Sonata Op. 147 with Linda Bouchard's Pourtinade and Paul Chihara's Redwood, played by Kim Kashkashian (viola), Robert Levin (piano) and Robyn Schulkowsky (percussion), recorded in June and October 1990.