As a tribute to Shostakovich on the centenary of his birth this month, this program looks at his outstanding set of Preludes and Fugues Op. 87 from a musical perspective, focusing on their great ...
The Arts Desk: Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues, Igor Levit, Barbican review - an eagle's-eye view
Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues, Igor Levit, Barbican review - an eagle's-eye view
No one is going to take Shostakovich’s Preludes and Fugues into the recording studio without having mastered their every technical and intellectual twist and turn. Sofia Sacco can certainly tick that ...
Shostakovich’s great keyboard cycle, the 24 Preludes and Fugues, still carries something of an aura more than six decades after its creation. This is music of a strange, abstract and solitary beauty.
Last February, Igor Levit played a recital at Zankel Hall. He is a pianist, born in the Soviet Union, raised chiefly in Germany. On his program were preludes and fugues of Shostakovich—three of them, ...
Last Sunday afternoon, virtuoso Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov performed at Mandel Hall for an extraordinary performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues. Melnikov is a graduate of ...
Some musical masterpieces transcend mere euphony to become a matter of life and death. Composed in 1950-51 by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), the 24 Preludes and Fugues, Opus 87 for piano represented ...
Shostakovichs 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, represents one of the fascinating if seldom performed landmarks of modern piano music. Patterned after J.S. Bachs ”Well-Tempered Clavier,” the 1950-51 ...
When pianist Craig Sheppard bought his first score for Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, in London in 1975, he didn’t quite know what he had in his hands. “It was sitting around, barely ...