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	Classical Net Review - Shostakovich - Piano Quintet, Piano Trio #2
		Shostakovich seems to have followed two different paths - one representing the public rhetoric and a striving for the epic or the theatric, the other more inward, even psychological.
		As to the Piano Quintet, the mystery critic and I must be listening to two different works.
		The movement doesn't rise to the passion of its counterpart in the quintet, and consequently serves as a kind of bitter relief.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/p/phi32079a.html (1602 words)

	Quintet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In classical instrumental music, any additional instrument (such as a piano, clarinet, oboe, etc.) joined to the usual string quartet (two violins, a viola, and a cello), gives the resulting ensemble its name, such as "piano quintet", "clarinet quintet", etc. A piece of music written for such a group is similarly named.
		In jazz music a quintet is any group of five players, usually containing a drum set (pedal bass, snaredrum sometimes brushed, and top hat and brushed cymbals), string bass or electric bass, and groups of one or two of the following instruments, guitar, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, or trombone.
		In some modern bands there are quintets formed from the same family of instruments with various voices, as an all brass ensemble, or all saxophones, in soprano, alto, baritone, and bass, and sometimes double bass.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quintet (438 words)

	Encyclopedia: Piano Quintet (Shostakovich) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Piano Quintet, opus 57, by Dmitri Shostakovich is one of his best known chamber works.
		Like most piano quintets, it is written for piano and string quartet (two violins, viola and cello).
		Shostakovich began work on the piece in the summer of 1940 and completed it on September 14 of the same year.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Piano-Quintet-(Shostakovich) (165 words)

	Piano quintet -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Although these pieces could be called piano quintets, they are more often referred to as "quintets for piano and wind" so as to distinguish them from pieces with the more usual instrumentation.
		Piano Quintet (for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon; 1796)
		Piano Quintet, K. 452 (for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon; 1784)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pi/piano_quintet.htm (411 words)

	ipedia.com: Piano quintet Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The most common grouping is one piano, two violins, a viola and a cello, that is a piano with a string quartet.
		Franz Schubert's famous Trout quintet is written for the less usual combination of piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass.
		Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven both wrote pieces for a piano and four wind instruments (oboe, clarinet, French horn and bassoon in both cases).
	www.ipedia.com /piano_quintet.html (348 words)

	Piano quintet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		A piano quintet is a chamber musical ensemble made up of one piano and four other instruments, or the name of a piece written for such a group.
		Several composers have written piano quintets, although few have written more than one, a rare exception being Gabriel Fauré, who wrote two.
		Although these pieces could be called piano quintets, theyare more often referred to as "quintets for piano and wind" so as to distinguish them from pieces with the more usualinstrumentation.
	www.therfcc.org /piano-quintet-2455.html (283 words)

	Onno van Rijen's Shostakovich & Other Soviet Composers Page
		The Variations for piano, clarinet and chamber orchestra is one of her most popular instrumental compositions: its passages of lyrical dialogue between the soloists, colourful impressionistic scenes and sections dominated by motivic energy form a well-balanced and integrated whole.
		- the pianist Sviatoslav Richter: Piano Sonatas of Beethoven, Liszt and Schubert
		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 (4651 words)

	AllRefer.com - Dmitri Shostakovich (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Shostakovich sought Soviet approval and survived the changing tides of opinion.
		Influenced by Mahler in his monumental symphonies, many of which include choral portions, Shostakovich was basically a Russian nationalist composer whose work represented traditional classical forms and generally remained accessibly tonal.
		His outstanding works include 15 string quartets, a piano concerto (1933), the Piano Quintet (1940), the Eighth Symphony (1943), 24 Preludes and Fugues for Piano (1951), and the 13th Symphony, "Babi Yar" (1962).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Shostako.html (369 words)

	San Antonio Chamber Music Society - Last Year's Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Fifth Symphony and the Piano Quintet were to reestablish his favor in the eyes of the Soviet authorities.
		The Quintet was written in 1940 during a period of relative quiet after Hitler's conquest of Poland, under the false security brought about by the German-Soviet peace pact and the decrease in Stalin's purges.
		Shostakovich's other contributions to the chamber music treasury include today's piano quintet, two piano trios, sonatas for cello, violin and viola, and a number of song cycles that must be counted among his most moving compositions.
	www.ccsi.com /~bat/97feb8notes.html (2431 words)

	Shostakovich - Schnittke [KS]: Classical CD Reviews- Nov 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Shostakovich and Schnittke shared the distinction and challenge of being leading Soviet composers.
		Shostakovich’s piano quintet from 1940, was a turning point for the composer, whose sixth symphony had been met with a less than stellar reception the year before.
		The piano’s lilting melody is set against a wash of string sound whose slow harmonic changes and lack of definable rhythmic gestures give the tune a detached and dreamy quality.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Dec02/Shostakovich_Schnittke_PianoQuintets.htm (740 words)

	SHOSTAKOVICH Quintet USTVOLSKAYA Octet CATALYST 8287665454 2 [TH]: Classical CD Reviews- Jan 2005 MusicWeb-International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Though the great Shostakovich Piano Quintet may appear to be the main bill of fare here, this disc is undoubtedly of chief importance for the other composer featured.
		Her studies with Shostakovich were important to her, and the debt is audibly there in this early piece.
		Even if your favourite recording of the Shostakovich Quintet is unlikely to be displaced, this disc demands your attention for the Ustvolskaya works, music that is never comfortable listening but will linger in your memory long after the disc has stopped spinning.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2005/Jan05/shostakovich_Ustvolskaya.htm (954 words)

	Amazon.com: Shostakovich: Piano Quintet; Piano Trio No. 2: Music: Dmitry Shostakovich,Borodin Trio,Jerry Horner,Mimi ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Shostakovich's Piano Quintet is a 1940 composition, written when World War II was looming over the horizon.
		The Borodin Trio (Rostislav Dubinsky, violin, Luba Edlina, piano, and Yuli Turovsky, cello) join forces with guest Mimi Zweig, violin, and Jerry Horner, viola in performing the demanding but intoxicatingly beautiful Piano Quintet in G minor, Opus 57 and as a trio the Piano Trio in E minor, Opus 67.
		The Quintet opens with a spacious, plangent Lento (echoed later in the 4th movement Lento) but in the second movements it prances to the tune we all know as 'New York, New York, a Wonderful Town!' and one wonders the derivation...
	www.amazon.com /Shostakovich-Piano-Quintet-Trio-No/dp/B000000ACI (711 words)

	NIU’s Vermeer Quartet earns Grammy nomination for recording of Russian piano quintets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		“Shostakovich and Schnittke are the two most important Russian composers of the last century, and each one wrote only one piano quintet.
		Shostakovich wrote 15 string quartets, and Schnittke wrote a number of string quartets, but each only wrote one piano quintet,” Young said.
		The Shostakovich is already considered an important part of the ‘standard’ repertoire, though it’s been around for only 60 years or so.
	www.niu.edu /northerntoday/2004/jan12/vermeer.shtml (743 words)

	Music under Soviet rule: CDs: Vainberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		For example, the opening Prelude and Aria of Vainberg's Piano Trio draws on the Prelude of Shostakovich's Piano Quintet of 1940, while at the same time offering a model for the first movement of Shostakovich's Fourth String Quartet (1949).
		Elsewhere, especially in the piano pieces of the Children's Notebooks, Vainberg takes as much from Prokofiev as from Shostakovich, yet the music is always totally - and often fiercely - his own.
		Compared to his richly-textured Piano Quintet of 1944 (Olympia OCD 474), the Piano Trio is stark, angular, and dissonant to the point of intermittent atonality.
	www.siue.edu /~aho/musov/discrev/vain.html (455 words)

	The Edinburgh Quartet Official Site - Repertoire
		Schubert's Cello Quintet (Moray Welsh or Deirdre Cooper) will be paired with the soon to be rediscovered Quintet by Hamish McCunn.
		In Piano Quintets by Cesar Franck, Kenneth Leighton and Schumann the Quartet will be joined by Gustav Fenyo, Leslie Howard or Robert Markham.
		Viola Quintets by Mendelssohn and Bruckner will be included as part of the "Eminent Victorian" theme.
	www.edinburghquartet.com /EQsite/office/repertoire.htm (1404 words)

	DSCH 18 Shostakovich CD Reviews - Shostakovich Plays Shostakovich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Dmitri Shostakovich (piano and introducing pieces in [d]); Beethoven String Quartet[a]: Dmitri Tsyganov (violin 1)[b], Vasily Shirinsky (violin 2), Vadim Borisovsky (viola), Sergei Shirinsky (cello)[b].
		Unlike the Quintet, the performance of the Second Trio on the disc represents the first of the two recordings made by Shostakovich.
		Although Shostakovich’s playing is as bold and exciting here as it is in the second recording, Tsyganov’s and Shirinsky’s performances are less glamorous than those of Oistrakh and Sadlo.
	www.dschjournal.com /reviews/rvs18op57.htm (675 words)

	The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
		Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet also draws on earlier models—in this case, on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, which was always dear to Shostakovich’s heart.
		Compared to Shostakovich’s other chamber works, this beautifully balanced, finely wrought Quintet is relatively free from his characteristic soul-searching and occasional anguish.
		Instead, we encounter more “positive” aspects of Shostakovich’s emotional arsenal: ecstatic melodies, naive sassiness, and an optimistic finale that quotes a tune associated with the entrance of clowns in Russian circuses.
	www.chambermusicsociety.org /events/performance_detail.php?id=174 (246 words)

	Shostakovich: String Quartet 1, Piano Quintet & Piano Trio 2
		Pianist Igor Uryash joins the St Petersburg Quartet for the Piano Quintet of 1940; after its performance the work won for Shostakovich the Stalin Prize of 100,000 roubles.
		A glance at the list of movements might lead one to imagine that this is a neoclassical work, but its direct emotional power and thematic integration place it on altogether a higher level than mere pastiche.
		Piano Trio No 2 (No 1 does not survive complete) was written four years later, in memory of the life of the Russian musicologist Ivan Sollertinsky.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /details/67158.asp (372 words)

	DSCH 18 Shostakovich CD Reviews - Piano Quintet, Eighth Quartet
		In DSCH No. 14, I applauded a reissued recording of Shostakovich's Quintet by the Talich Quartet and pianist Miroslav Langer, a reading of uncommon darkness and emotional intensity (Praga PR 7254042).
		Not that the Talich players' uniformly introspective and subdued approach in the slow pages is without merit, but their decision to choose speed at the expense of crushing force in the second and fourth movements evades this autobiographical work's sense of dread.
		Of course, some listeners may find the Talich Quartet's shunning of histrionics to be refreshing, and their technique is as admirable as in the Quintet, apart from some raspiness on Vladimir Bukac's viola in the third movement.
	www.dschjournal.com /reviews/rvs18op110.htm (510 words)

	classical music - andante - philadelphia orchestra chamber music series: boccherini, schubert, shostakovich
		Here are three varied quintets, selected from two concerts in the 2002–03 Philadelphia Orchestra Chamber Music Series at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater.
		Finally, the Philadelphia Orchestra's new Music Director, Christoph Eschenbach, joins Associate Concertmaster Michael Ludwig and three of his colleagues to perform Shostakovich's Piano Quintet in G minor at a concert on 9 March 2003.
		Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 ("Trout") (39:12)
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=22935 (313 words)

	Pianos and Pianists - Who to listen for
		Piano Concerto in G with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Grant Llewellyn, plus solos by
		Piano Concerto in G with the BBC Philharmonic under Jaap van Zweden
		Piano Concerto in G with the BBC Concert Orchestra under Andrea Quinn
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2000/07/ppwhojul.htm (327 words)

	National Arts Centre - Centre national des Arts
		The quintet resembles a horn concerto in the way the horn plays continuously and usually in a principal role.
		The second half of the concert is devoted to Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet, Op.
		The composer wrote it in 1940 for the Beethoven Quartet, an ensemble founded in 1923 at the Moscow Conservatory, when they asked him for a piano quintet in which he could join them in performance (Shostakovich was a brilliant pianist, but after his student years, seldom performed except in his own music).
	www.nac-cna.ca /en/nacnews/viewnews.cfm?ID=692 (466 words)

	Shostakovich and Schnittke String Quintets by Boris Berman at Audio Lunchbox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Shostakovich and Schnittke String Quintets by Boris Berman at Audio Lunchbox
		5: Shostakovich and Schnittke String Quintets - Schnittke Quintet - In tempo di Valse
		9: SHOSTAKOVICH / SCHNITTKE: Piano Quintets - SHOSTAKOVICH: Quintet for Piano and Strings, Op.
	www.audiolunchbox.com /album?a=1612 (218 words)

	Fort Worth Weekly Online -- fwweekly.com \| Calendar \| All for Mimir
		Brahms' Piano Trio No. 1 is a gigantic work (running in some performances to 40 minutes) that explores the sonic capabilities of its three instruments.
		Perhaps more impressive is Bohuslav Martinu's Three Madrigals, a brilliant work of approximately 15 minutes that uses only two instruments (violin and viola) but has them chasing each other, trading phrases, and vying for supremacy.
		Shostakovich's Piano Quintet, with a vaguely Spanish third movement that's pure slapstick comedy, finds the composer at his most accessible.
	www.fwweekly.com /issues/2003-07-09/calendar.html (275 words)

	Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906 - 1975)
		Dmitry Shostakovich belongs to the generation of composers trained principally after the Communist Revolution of 1917.
		Outwardly and inevitably conforming to official policy, posthumous information suggests that Shostakovich remained very critical of Stalinist dictates, particularly with regard to music and the arts.
		He occupies a significant position in the 20th century as a symphonist and as a composer of chamber music, writing in a style that is sometimes spare in texture but always accessible, couched as it is in an extension of traditional tonal musical language.
	www.smusic.com /naxos/shost/shost.htm (325 words)

	The Alexander String Quartet - Performance Calendar
		Mozart Quartet in G Major, K. Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor, Op.
		Shostakovich Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op.
		Shostakovich Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op.
	www.asq4.com /site/performance.htm (483 words)

	The Juilliard School - Press - Press Release
		Shostakovich - Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op.
		Brahms - Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op.
		Schumann - Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op.
	www.juilliard.edu /update/press/865current_releases_story.html (184 words)

	New York 05-06 Subscription Concerts
		We also examine the influence of jazz on Stravinsky in 1918, when he wrote his famous "A Soldier's Tale," which we perform with Kurt Vonnegut's original text of Private Eddie Slovick's execution in January 1945.
		Special focus will be given to Mozart on his 250th birthday in 2006 and to Shostakovich who would have been 100 in this same year.
		JANÁCEK Concertino for piano, clarinet, horn, bassoon, 2 violins & viola
	www.nyphilomusica.org /concerts/05-06/newyork.html (414 words)

	Medialunchbox - Music : Shostakovich, Schnittke: Piano Quintets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		I purchased this disc for the most part because of my interest in Shostokovich; I had heard little about Schnittke and had deduced that he was an imitator of his more famous fellow Russian.
		While the Shostakovich piano quintet was interesting in its own right, it was the Schnittke quintet that truly impressed me. In fact, it was the most unique and musically interesting piece of 20th century classical I had heard up to that point.
		Schnittke's piece is a logical pairing, and not common on disc.
	www.medialunchbox.com /ItemId/B00006GO41 (180 words)

	The Music Chamber - Shostakovich Piano Quintet in g, op.57
		Text: The Op.57 piano quintet can be played joyously and is then very attractive.
		Despite its naive appearance, the quintet has quite complex thematic references from one movement to another and visits very improbable keys.
		Was this quintet intended to be an ironic or sarcastic work hiding behind a childlike facade?
	library.thinkquest.org /27110/noframes/repertoire/shostakovichop57.html (102 words)

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