Word: dorlyak
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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Shostakovich: From Jewish Folk Poetry, Opus 79 (Nina Dorlyak, Zara Do-ukhanova, Alexei Maslenikov; composer at the piano; Monitor). Shostakovich's :acit reproach to Stalinist antiSemitism, this lyrical, introspective music for three voices and piano offers a rewarding _limpse-far more intimate than his recent bombastic orchestral works-into the spirit of the talented, troubled man who s today's top Soviet composer...
...Moscow Conservatory, made a name for himself in Soviet music when in 1939 he played the premiere performance of Serge Prokofiev's Sixth Sonata. These days he gives as many as 120 concerts a season in Russia and the satellites. He lives with his wife, Lyric Soprano Nina Dorlyak, in a Moscow apartment whose telephone number he is too absent-minded to remember. When he is in the mood, he may sit for 14 hours a day at the piano, but he is also likely to go for months without practicing. He dislikes recording, and as a result...
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