IDAGIO | DG Concerts LA 2006/2007 - Shadow of Stalin - Shostakovich / Mosolov 00028947773481

Featuring

Esa-Pekka Salonen
Michael Robert Hendrick
Vladislav Sulimsky
Tatiana Pavlovskaya
Benjamin von Atrops
Los Angeles Philharmonic

Dmitri Shostakovich
Alexander Mosolov

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Compositional Technique

Mosolov's The Iron Foundry, a vivid musical evocation of its subject, was originally the introductory episode of a four-movement orchestral suite for an un-staged ballet called Steel.

Composition History

Shostakovich composed his opera The Nose, based on Nikolai Gogol's tale, at age 20 to establish himself as a leading modernist composer in Soviet Russia.

Critical Reception

Shostakovich's opera The Nose, intended to revolutionize operatic theater, was criticized as 'the infantile sickness of leftism' by proletarian critics.

Composer Biography

Dmitri Shostakovich, born in 1906, had a career tormented by suffocating political repression, foreign invasion, and personal tragedy.

Composer Biography

Alexander Mosolov, a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, was a driving force in Moscow's new music scene in the 1920s, known for his 'constructivist' style.

Performer Biography

Esa-Pekka Salonen, the conductor, is the 10th music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and his current tenure is the second-longest in the Philharmonic's history.