Steinberg: Symphony No. 3 - Shostakovich: The Bolt, Suite from the Ballet
11/15/2024, 10 Tracks, 55:34
Featuring
Dmitry Filatov
Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra
Maximilian Steinberg
Dmitri Shostakovich
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Composer Biography
Dmitri Shostakovich, whose ballet suite is on this album, was the most talented student of Maximilian Steinberg, the other composer featured.
Composer Biography
Maximilian Steinberg, one of the composers on this album, was considered by his St. Petersburg Conservatory professors to have an exceptionally outstanding and versatile talent for composition.
Composer Biography
Maximilian Steinberg, a composer featured on this album, was known in Europe thanks to the production of his ballet Metamorphosen in Diaghilev's 1914 Russian Season.
Compositional Technique
Maximilian Steinberg's Symphony No. 3 incorporates the ancient Jewish melody "El jiwneh Hagalil" (God will Build Galilee), giving it a universal, timeless meaning.
Composition History
Dmitri Shostakovich's ballet The Bolt, from which this suite is taken, was created when he was 25 and resembled the propaganda spectacles and constructivist style of the 1930s.
Critical Reception
Maximilian Steinberg's Symphony No. 3 was premiered in Leningrad (1929) and Moscow (1930) under his own baton and was also performed abroad in the 1930s via radio broadcasts.
Composition History
Maximilian Steinberg's Symphony No. 3 was composed between June 1927 and December 1928, appearing after several years of silence from the composer.
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