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Shostakovich / Weinberg / Oliverson - Censored Anthems [CD]

Shostakovich / Weinberg / Oliverson - Censored Anthems [CD]

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A Musical America New Artist and BBC Rising Star, Ian Niederhoffer is a fast-rising, young conductor. Here, together with his orchestra Parlando, he explores music as a tool of cultural resilience in the face of censorship, particularly within the Soviet Union. This eclectic program includes Shostakovich's Adagio from Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk, a work infamously censored after Stalin's disapproval, the Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra by Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a composer whose career was shaped by persecution during Stalin's anti-cosmopolitan campaign, and Edvard Mirzoyan's Symphony for String Orchestra and Timpani, which is a powerful testament to Armenian cultural survival despite Soviet Russification. Inspired by Parlando's mission that "every concert tells a story", the album ends with three narrated tracks detailing Soviet censorship.

Tracklist:

  1. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk~Adagio
  2. Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra, Op. 42~Allegretto cantabile
  3. Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra, Op. 42~Lento - Adagio
  4. Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra, Op. 42~Allegro moderato poco rubato
  5. Symphony for String Orchestra and Timpani~Andante patetico - Allegro moderato
  6. Symphony for String Orchestra and Timpani~Allegro ma non troppo
  7. Symphony for String Orchestra and Timpani~Adagio - Andante doloroso
  8. Symphony for String Orchestra and Timpani~Allegro vivo
  9. What does censorship sound like?, an exploration~Ian Niederhoffer on Shostakovich's Adagio
  10. What does censorship sound like?, an exploration~Ian Niederhoffer on Weinberg's Concertino
  11. What does censorship sound like?, an exploration~Ian Niederhoffer on Mirzoyan's Symphony

UPC: 013491361024
Label: Delos Records
Release Date: 2.28.25
Format: CD

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