Schostakowitsch: Sonatas & Trios For Piano & Strin
Label: PHAIA Catalog: PHU03031 Format: CD Yakov Kasman - Petr Macecek - Petr Prause - Jan Talich - Vladimir BukacDimitri Schostakowitsch (1906-1976) The Violin Sonata (1968) and the Viola Sonata (1975), testamentary works, date from the last decade or so of Shostakovich's life, when his music became more introspective and he turned more and more to the intimacy of the chamber genre. Both of these works illustrate his amazing attempts to reconcile modernity and tradition. They are modern in that neither conforms to a pre established compositional system; their language is no longer determined by tonality, atonality or serialism and the composer refuses to bow to the constraints of set aesthetics. They are traditional in their borrowings From Slavonic folk sources, folk songs and dances and the harmonies of the Orthodox liturgy form a rich mosaic in these compositions. They also contain quotations from the music of composers whom he admired and loved, as well as from his own. Price: $20.98 |