Word: shostakoviches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surreal, prehistoric kingdom of Shakespeare's Lear. The next shot shows Lear's huge, imposing castle which rises suddenly and rather unnaturally out of the ground, dwarfing the peasants who in comparison look like a bunch of ants swarming on an anthill. Heightened by the effective use of Dmitry Shostakovich's operatic score, the feeling of impending doom is made clear even before a word of the script has been said...
...tightly disciplined ensemble under the impressively gifted American conductor Leonard Slatkin, 38. Like the Chicago Symphony, which it resembles in style and flair, the St. Louis Symphony is at its best in big pieces, but of a more recent vintage: Rachmaninoff's orchestral music, Shostakovich and Prokofiev symphonies. Good as the orchestra is, its fortunes remain closely tied to Slatkin...
Occasionally, the major festivals display some enterprise. The Hollywood Bowl last week was the site of an unusual program of Polish music, including works by Stanislaw Moniuszko (the 19th century composer of the popular Polish national opera Halka) and Shostakovich, who was of Polish descent. That program, however, was performed by the visiting Warsaw Philharmonic. At Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony has responsibly programmed two new works it commissioned for its centennial last year. And at the Mann Music Center in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Orchestra performed a piano concerto believed to have been written by Franz Liszt, and orchestrated by Tchaikovsky...
...idea that Shostakovich was merely noisy is one of the misconceptions we're trying to destroy," says Fitzwilliam Violist Alan George, 32. The ensemble has been closely associated with Shostakovich's music since 1972, when the sick, aging composer came to York to hear the group perform his tightly organized, mournful Quartet No. 13. That meeting began a relationship that continued until the composer's death; Shostakovich sent the Fitzwilliam the scores of his 14th and 15th Quartets for their first performances outside the Soviet Union. Says First Violinist Christopher Rowland, 35: "He seemed very touched that...
...group's adventurous repertory also includes quartets by César Franck, Fauré, Sibelius, Borodin and Nielsen. Starting in July they will regularly perform the music of Mozart and Haydn on 18th century instruments. But it is in Shostakovich that the Fitzwilliam's reputation has justly been made. Whether negotiating the complexities of the late quartets, such as the tortured, defiant Twelfth, or inhabiting the sunnier climes of the Fourth and Sixth Quartets, the Fitzwilliam's performances were marked by a clear, unforced ensemble tone, individual virtuosity and an unfailing sensitivity to the music...