Partitions difficile chez Sikorski Musikverlag

Dans le domaine de la nouvelle musique, le "De profundis" de Sofia Gubaidulina a déjà atteint le statut de classique. Le fait que des instruments soient capables de s'approcher de la voix humaine dans...

Dans son cycle de chansons de 22 minutes intitulé Black Sun, Alexander Raskatov met en scène sept poèmes d'Ossip Mandelstam - des miniatures obsédantes pleines de peur existentielle, de noirceur métap...

The Azerbaijani composer Franghiz Ali-Zadeh composed her piano solo work 'Landscape (Rising)' for the '8th International Adilia Alieva Piano Competition' in Gaillard (France). The world premiere of th...

This 'Trio Ballad' begins with constantly insistent, rapid sextuplets. The clarinet is a kind of an airhead (of all trades) and the viola is a type of demon. The piano provides a foundation for the ot...

Nine months after Stalin's death on 10 December 1953, Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 was premiered as his first symphonic composition since the end of the war. It was later interpreted by Solom...

The fateful Pravda article 'Muddle Instead of Music' appeared in January 1936, in which Shostakovich was directly attacked for his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, at which point the composer had comple...

In the summer of 1937 - during the dangerous time of Stalin's Great Terror - Shostakovich completed his Symphony No. 5. The Pravda article "Muddle Instead of Music" from January 1936, which condemned...

While the German Wehrmacht besieged Leningrad, Shostakovich wrote his 'Leningrad' Symphony. More than a million people died during the 28-month-long isolation of the city. Against this backdrop, Shost...

In September 1961, Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem 'Babi Yar' appeared in the Soviet Literaturnaya Gazeta, addressing the mass shooting in 1941 of more than 33,000 Jewish men, women and children on the out...

À l'origine, Chostakovitch avait prévu de faire de sa Symphonie n° 6 un hommage monumental à Lénine pour solistes vocaux, chœur et grand orchestre. Dès l'année précédant son achèvement, il a annoncé d...

Après avoir cédé à la pression massive des autorités de l’État en 1960 et être finalement devenu membre du Parti communiste, Chostakovitch est tombé dans une sombre dépression. Son 8e Quatuor à cordes...