Ruth Palmer Plays Shostakovich

Ruth Palmer, Violin; Philharmonia Orchestra; Benjamin Wallfisch, Conductor; Alexei Grynyuk, piano

Shostakovich
Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 77 (Op 99) / Sonata for Violin & Piano Op 134

DVD: A People's Music / A film by Tim Meara

This unique CD and DVD set features recordings by one of the UK's outstanding young violinists, Ruth Palmer, of two major works for the violin by Dmitri Shostakovich. It also includes a documentary film by Tim Meara, A People's Music, in which Ruth travels to Russia to find out more about the origins of the music and to discover what led Shostakovich to write these two works.

Price: $25.98