Shostakovich: Violin Sonata / Auerbach: Ballet for A Lonely Violinist / September 11
1/1/2007, 13 Tracks, 1:07:17
Featuring
Vadim Gluzman
Angela Yoffe
Dmitri Shostakovich
Lera Auerbach
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Composition History
Shostakovich composed his first Jazz Suite for a state competition in Leningrad in 1934, which aimed to raise the quality of jazz.
Historical Context
Both the National Socialists and Soviet authorities condemned jazz, with the former calling it an "international cultural plague" and the latter despising it as "bourgeois decadence."
Instruments
Vadim Gluzman plays the extraordinary 1690 'ex-Leopold Auer' Stradivari violin, which is on extended loan from the Stradivari Society of Chicago.
Compositional Technique
Shostakovich's Violin Sonata, Op. 134, uses twelve-tone technique, which he himself had previously maligned in official statements.
Composition History
Dmitri Shostakovich's Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 134, was given to his friend David Oistrakh for his sixtieth birthday in 1968.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Lera Auerbach, a Russian composer, pianist, and writer, shares Shostakovich's belief that music is primarily a means of expression and should not renounce tonality.
Composition History
Lera Auerbach's Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano, subtitled 'September 11', was started on September 12, 2001, as a way to transform pain into art.
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