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Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony; Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings. Constantine Orbelian, pianist and conductor; Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Delos DE 3259.(Review)
Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony; Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings. Constantine Orbelian, pianist and conductor; Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Delos DE 3259.
This disc prepares you for the unyielding material it contains by declaring on the cover, "Dedicated to Victims of War and Terror." Conductor Constantine Orbelian's grandparents were victims of such injustices in Stalinist Russia before the Second World War, so the program material he has selected has special meaning for him. The Shostakovich Chamber Symphony is based on the composer's Eighth Quartet. The Quartet was written in 1960 and is dedicated "To the Memory of Victims of War and Fascism." Today, of course, we may read into it, "victims of war, fascism, and Stalinist Communism." At the time, however, Shostakovich was very depressed at being forced to join the Communist Party. It is said that the composer's personal despair is what gives the piece its edge, its pain, and its emotional depth. Certainly, Orbelian emphasizes the work's subjective aspects, painting a vivid, harsh, even brutal picture of dark times, unrelieved by any happy or triumphant ending.
Following the Chamber Symphony with Schnittke's Piano Concerto, performed by Orbelian himself, is the mitigation we seek after the stormy Shostakovich. Built as a series of ...
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