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	Ruth Palmer - Shostakovich Violin Concerto & Sonata (CD & DVD) - CD & MP3 Download
		Shostakovich - Sonata for Violin and Piano Op 134
		This unique CD and DVD set features recordings by one of the UK's outstanding young violinists, Ruth Palmer, of two major works for the violin by Dmitri Shostakovich.
		It also includes a documentary film by Tim Meara, A People's Music, in which Ruth travels to Russia to find out more about the origins of the music and to discover what led Shostakovich to write these two works.
	www.quartzmusic.com /cd/QTZ2045.htm (223 words)

	Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Shostakovich
		Shostakovich was considered promising by the conservatory staff; he was active as a student composer and wrote his First Symphony as a graduation piece in 1925.
		Still, Shostakovich was disciplined by the cultural authorities on several occasions, particularly when all of the USSR's leading composers, including Serge Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturian, and Nicolai Myaskovsky, were denounced for "formalism," or decadent avant-gardism, in 1948; this coming after a period of war when artists had greater creative freedoms.
		Shostakovich's music, a collection of works providing the landscape of a torn man, is baldly Russian in style, yet diverse.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/shostakovich.html (1228 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich - an overview of the classical composer
		Dmitri Shostakovich was born in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) and died in Moscow.
		Some of Shostakovich's work seems to be simply paying his dues as an upright citizen but in many cases, although his music might outwardly be conforming with the party line, there is nevertheless the feeling that he is rebelling against this.
		It is true that Shostakovich like other composers has placed some hidden messages in his music, and it no doubt adds a different perspective to understand what was in the mind of a composer during the creative process, it is far from essential.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Dmitri-Shostakovich.htm (1115 words)

	ScribeMedia » A Journey of Dmitri Shostakovich
		The film chronicles Shostakovich during a Soviet ‘propaganda cruise’ to the United States where he is forced to act as a cultural emissary, lauding the political structure of his country, (carefully escorted by several party ‘handlers’).
		Shostakovich’s relationship to the Russian authorities, and what his personal convictions were in regards to the Communist Party have never been fully appreciated by the West.
		Dmitri Shostakovich was born in St. Petersburg, the arts capital of Russia at the time.
	www.scribemedia.org /2006/11/07/shostakovich (1130 words)

	STEVE BODNER ON DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
		Dmitri Shostakovich, composer of fifteen symphonies, developed a musical language all of his own, one that could communicate emotions of anger, sadness, joy, and cynicism (he never underestimated his audience's ability to uncover the meanings of his compositions).
		Shostakovich, a musical contemporary of Stravinsky who decided to remain in Russia, is a creative genius that was influenced tremendously by his native land, the nation where he produced his influential symphonies.
		Shostakovich was born to his parents Dmitri Boleslavovich and Sofia on 25 September 1906 in the city formerly known as St. Petersburg, now known as Leningrad.
	www.users.muohio.edu /shermalw/honors_2001_fall/honors_papers_2000/bodner.html (3490 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shostakovich (left), with the conductor Kiril Kondrashin and poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko at the premiere of the composer's controversial 13th symphony.
		Shostakovich died of lung cancer on August 9, 1975 and after a civic funeral was interred in the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow.
		Shostakovich's music shows the influence of many of the composers he most admired: Bach in his fugues and passacaglias; Beethoven in the late quartets; Mahler in the symphonies and Berg in his use of musical codes and quotations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich (3785 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich Piece @ JobsInArt.com (Jobs in Art) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Shostakovich's musical response to these personal crises was the Eighth String Quartet, which like the Tenth Symphony incorporates quotations and his musical monogram.
		Shostakovich made great use of accidentals, both for chromatic effect and (as here) to denote keys.
		Shostakovich's works are broadly tonal and in the Romantic tradition, but with elements of atonality and chromaticism.
	www.jobsinart.com /encyclopedia/Dmitri_Shostakovich (3240 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dsch is a musical motif used by the russian composer dmitri shostakovich to represent himself, in the manner of the bach motif of johann sebastian bach....
		The nose is a satirical opera by the russian composer dmitri shostakovich....
		Lady macbeth of the mtsensk district (or lady macbeth) is an opera by the russian composer dmitri shostakovich inspired by and named after the famous...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/dm/dmitri_shostakovich.htm (5448 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich Portion @ CompleteIdiot.com (Complete Idiot) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He nevertheless won an "honorable mention" at the 1927 Warsaw International Piano Competition; after the competition, Shostakovich met the conductor Bruno Walter, who was so impressed by the composer's 1927 he wrote his Second Symphony (subtitled To October).
		Yuri Lyubimov says that at this time "he waited for his arrest at night out on the landing by the lift, so that at least his family wouldn't be disturbed".
		A preoccupation with his own mortality permeates much of Shostakovich's later works, among them the later quartets and the Fifteenth Symphony of 1971 is, by contrast melodic and retrospective in nature, quoting as it does from Wagner, Rossini and the composer's own Fourth Symphony.
	www.completeidiot.com /encyclopedia/Dmitri_Shostakovich (3152 words)

	dmitri-shostakovich Mp3 Albums Review
		Shostakovich seems to be parodying nothing here; although there are haunting moments, particularly the string canon in the first movement and the solo violin that opens the slow movement, the Quintet, rare for this composer, is not clouded by melanchily.
		Sofia Gubaidulina was told by Shostakovich at her conservatory graduation, "I want you to continue along your mistaken path." This was rare praise in the Soviet music world, and she, the devoutly Christian composer, is still grateful to her old commissar.
		Shostakovich's 15th Quartet is haunted by his awareness of his approaching death,and his attempt to come to terms with a life that was surrounded and submerged in tragedy.
	www.mp3-find.com /albums_review_dmitri-shostakovich.asp (6760 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich, the composer and his work
		Dmitri Shostakovich is nowadays considered as the Beethoven of the 20th century, probably because as this famous predecessor he composed heroic works, which embody the aspirations of the people of his time, and a set of quartets in which he freely expressed his inner thoughts and feelings.
		This schizophrenic duality is emblematic of the entire works by Shostakovich, and it took Western countries a long time to recognise and understand it, as most people were unaware of the skill an artist had to develop to survive in the hardest times of the Soviet Union.
		Dmitri Shostakovich dedicated him the Symphony, the only one among fifteen to be dedicated to a person.
	musicinwords.free.fr /dschlife.htm (1105 words)

	dmitri shostakovich (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Shostakovich was born in St. Petersburg on 25 September 1906.
		Because of the government censorship, Shostakovich could not be explicit about his anguish, and his musical genius lies in how the sarcasm of his nationalistic pieces, combined with subtle dark musical expressions, very effectively convey the oppression of life in Stalinist Russia, while still meeting the approval of the strict government.
		In 1979, a memoir of Shostakovich’s life was published, entitled Testimony, the memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov.
	www.goshen.edu /~andrewjh/writings/shostakovich.html (1021 words)

	Onno van Rijen's Shostakovich & Other Soviet Composers Page
		Shostakovich ends his opera in the middle of scene 8, just before Ikharyov introduces his new friends to "Adelaida Ivanovna", the name he has given to his trusted pack of marked cards.
		Shostakovich worstelde meer dan elke andere componist met de politieke situatie rond hem.
		Shostakovich and Stalin is a fascinating and important story of two remarkable and contrasting individuals, who in very different ways defined the century they lived in.
	home.wanadoo.nl /ovar (4820 words)

	NPR : Shostakovich, Man of Many Variations
		Weekend Edition Saturday, September 23, 2006 · Dmitri Shostakovich's most famous work, the Fifth Symphony, reflects his tenuous position as a creative artist in a repressive state.
		Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich poses during a recording session for the French record label Pathe Marconi in Paris, May 23, 1958.
		Shostakovich was emerging from a period of total musical banishment with his fifth symphony, calling it "a response to my critics."
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=6129917 (893 words)

	The Symphony - Dmitri Shostakovich
		Shostakovich was born in St Petersburg on 25th September, 1906, and was the son of an engineer. He developed great skills at the piano at an early age, and entered the Petrograd Conservatory at age 13, studying under Maximilian Steinberg.
		Shostakovich was forced to go back to old formulas and methods, and his Fifth Symphony was the first of his works to demonstrate this new direction. He described the work as 'a Soviet artist's reply to just criticism', and the piece won the approval of the public and even the authorities.
		Dmitri Shostakovich was a true master of his art, combining the colorful orchestral techniques of past Russian masters such as Rimsky-Korsakov with a highly intellectual sense of counterpoint and form.
	library.thinkquest.org /22673/shostakovich.html (389 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich Chamber Music
		Shostakovich publicly admitted to his sins and by rendering unto Caesar, he avoided the Siberian labor camps for his family and himself.
		Shostakovich managed to weather the political storms and during the last decade of his life reached a plateau beyond ideological criticism.
		Dmitri Shostakovich is always viewed in the context of the oppression and brutality of Stalinist Russia and the Soviet Union.
	www.fuguemasters.com /dsch.html (4928 words)

	Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906 - 1975) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Katerina Ismailova remains the principal opera of Shostakovich, with the early opera The Nose, based on Gogol, and the ballet The Golden Age.
		The fifteen symphonies of Shostakovich range in scope from the First Symphony of 1925, a graduation composition, to the embittered Thirteenth using Yevtushenko's poems.
		Shostakovich arranged concert suites from many of his film and theatre scores.
	www.hnh.com /composer/shostako.htm (493 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich, Politics, and Modern Music
		Dmitri Shostakovich was born in Petrograd in 1906.
		Shostakovich's other compositions of this period were in the same vein, to greater or lesser degrees.
		Shostakovich, who was present and realized the potential consequences for the orchestrator, defended him and lead the conversation to other, safer matters.
	www.old-yankee.com /writings/shosta.html (6324 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich at panartist.com
		Dmitri Shostakovich “Self-Portrait” A rare recording of Dmitri Shostakovich in which the composer performs his own compositions with legendary Russian performers Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and Josif Volovnik trumpet and with his son Maxim Shostakovich.
		This was received favourably, by the state and indeed by Shostakovich's international public, and seems to have turned him from the theatre to the concert hall.
		Shostakovich as a person is always depicted in a serious countenance suggesting a man lost in his inner thoughts.
	www.panartist.com /dmitrishostakovich.htm (1102 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| A century of Shostakovich
		I have noticed over the years that many of Shostakovich's detractors seem to be from the USA and often wondered if this is actually a legacy of the international political climate during Shostakovich's life and may perhaps fade as those that remember those decades fade also.
		Shostakovich was indeed one of the greatest composers of the 20th century.
		Shostakovich was in my opinion the greatest composer of the last century and perhaps of all time as well.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/5376696.stm (2524 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dmitri Dmitrison von Shostakovich (born 1906 C.E.) was a Soviet composer of emo music and popular television actor.
		Shostakovich used a fake ID to enroll in the Odessa Conservatory three years before the legal Russian composition age of 21.
		Shostakovich, son of the wealthy son of rich internet tycoon Al Stalin, dismisses his father's wishes in pursuit of his dream of one day becoming a real live human composer.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich (887 words)

	paul mitchinson.com » Blog Archive » Happy Birthday, Dmitri Shostakovich!
		Shostakovich's biography has been scoured for evidence of bitterness (of which there was plenty) and resistance (of which there was none).
		Shostakovich was accused of "borrowing from jazz bands their nervous, convulsive, epileptic music in order to impart ‘passion' to his heroine." While the opera succeeded in "tickling the perverted taste of the bourgeoisie with its fidgety, neurotic music," Shostakovich was darkly warned that such musical shenanigans "could end very badly."
		Shostakovich, in other words, was the living embodiment of a Soviet survivor, one who understood and navigated the system probably better than anyone.
	paulmitchinson.com /archives/219 (2879 words)

	Clarifying a confused debate The legacy of Dmitri Shostakovich
		Shostakovich's extraordinary 15 symphonies and 15 string quartets, many believe, rank him with Beethoven in terms of both the magnitude of the output and its depth and originality.
		The motive of all this appears to be to exonerate Shostakovich posthumously of all charges that he collaborated with the Stalinist regime—to show that he was forced to act as a mouthpiece for the authorities, and also that he was expressing his hostility to them through his music.
		Shostakovich had done something similar in the musical sphere (although he had been obliged to confess, not to fabricated acts of terror, but only to musical sins).
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/apr2000/shos-a07.shtml (5285 words)

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