Shostakovich Discoveries: World Premiere Recordings & Rarities

Featuring

Alexei Mochalov
Andrei Pushkarev
Nils Mönkemeyer
Rostislav Krimer
Daniil Trifonov
Thomas Sanderling

Gidon Kremer
Madara Pētersone
Georgijs Osokins
Daniel Ciobanu
Yulianna Avdeeva
Alexander Roslavets
Andrei Korobeinikov
Kremerata Baltica
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Dmitri Shostakovich
Krzysztof Meyer

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Recording & Production

Some pieces on this album are world premieres, while others are arrangements or unfinished works completed by other composers, making Gohrisch an important interface between Shostakovich scholarship and musical life.

Historical Context

The village of Gohrisch, south-east of Dresden, is associated with Shostakovich because he wrote his Eighth String Quartet there in 1960 while recuperating.

Composition History

Shostakovich's widow, Irina Shostakovich, granted the International Shostakovich Festival Gohrisch access to a selection of the composer's works for premieres, completions, or arrangements.

Recording & Production

This Deutsche Grammophon album features world premiere recordings and rarities of Shostakovich's works, released to mark the 50th anniversary of his death.

Recording & Production

The International Shostakovich Festival Gohrisch, whose artistic director is Tobias Niederschlag, aimed to include discoveries from the composer's estate in its program since its founding in 2010.

Composition History

The works on this album were found by musicologist Olga Digonskaya, who runs the Shostakovich Archives at Moscow's Glinka Museum, among the composer's unpublished papers.