Shostakovich and Pupils, Vol. 2: Weinberg, Sviridov, Bunin

Featuring

Fernanda Damiano
Mieczysław Weinberg
Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov
Revol Samuilovich Bunin
Dmitri Shostakovich

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Composer's Artistic Vision

The composers on this album, including Dmitri Shostakovich and his pupils, aimed to create music that was solid and well-structured, yet comprehensible to a wide audience, balancing innovation with tradition.

Historical Context

The composers' approach to balancing innovation and tradition may have been influenced by a desire to avoid accusations of 'formalism' during the Stalin era, which targeted Western avant-garde styles.

Performer Biography

Pianist Fernanda Damiano made her orchestral debut at age 10, performing Haydn's Concerto in D major, and has since performed as a soloist internationally at venues like Carnegie Hall and the Musikverein in Vienna.

Compositional Technique

The composers on this album utilized avant-garde techniques like polytonality and whole-tone scales, but often within a tonal framework, resulting in 'tampered with' or 'deformed' tonality.

Composer Biography

Mieczysław Weinberg, though born in Warsaw, was fully integrated into the Soviet Union and even changed his name to Vajnberg, while Revol Bunin and Georgi Sviridov were direct pupils of Dmitri Shostakovich.