Shostakovich
October 10th 2010 22:32
Prophets
2010 Selby & Friends Season Finale
Four Beautiful Women
Kathryn Selby, Taryn Fiebig,
Dimity Hall, Emma-Jane Murphy
Four Passionate Works
WA MOZART Piano Trio in B flat major, K.502
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Seven Romances on Poems by
Alexander Blok for soprano and piano trio, Op. 127
PETER SCULTHORPE From Irkanda III (1961)
MAURICE RAVEL Piano Trio in A minor (1914)
Adelaide - Sunday 14 November - 2:30pm,
Elder Hall University of Adelaide
Tickets from $40 - $55
The season finale sees Selby & Friends present a rarely heard work by Shostakovich with MsSelby inviting special guest artists Australian Opera star and Helpmann Award winner Taryn Fiebig, renowned violinist Dimity Hall, and TRIOZ-colleague cellist Emma-Jane Murphy for this exceptional program. Represented by four of the truly great composers of works for small ensembles, this program adds the timbre of radiant soprano voice to a classic work of human introspection from the repertoire by Shostakovich.
Dmitri Shostakovich was born in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) and died in Moscow. His entire musical career was therefore spent within Russia's Communist system, and in many ways it is clear that he had to strike a balance between his own artistic inclinations and the demands of the state. He was taught by Glazunov among others, learning piano and composition and graduating from the St. Petersburg (Petrograd) Conservatory at the age of 19 with his first symphony. This is a youthful, precocious work demonstrating his musical talents in no uncertain terms, with some similarities in approach to Prokofiev's Classical Symphony.
Though this was an early success, his music didn't always enjoy the approval of the Soviet authorities. His opera "The Nose" received some criticism and "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" received oven more. In later years he was to enjoy more artistic freedom, but under Stalin composers and other artists ran the risk of their work being labelled anti-state "formalism".
In some cases this could lead to "disappearances" so the threat was very real indeed. Shostakovich withdrew his 4th symphony before its premier for this reason and it wasn't performed until later under more liberal times. 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.
2010 Selby & Friends Season Finale
Four Beautiful Women
Kathryn Selby, Taryn Fiebig,
Dimity Hall, Emma-Jane Murphy
Four Passionate Works
WA MOZART Piano Trio in B flat major, K.502
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Seven Romances on Poems by
Alexander Blok for soprano and piano trio, Op. 127
PETER SCULTHORPE From Irkanda III (1961)
Adelaide - Sunday 14 November - 2:30pm,
Elder Hall University of Adelaide
Tickets from $40 - $55
The season finale sees Selby & Friends present a rarely heard work by Shostakovich with MsSelby inviting special guest artists Australian Opera star and Helpmann Award winner Taryn Fiebig, renowned violinist Dimity Hall, and TRIOZ-colleague cellist Emma-Jane Murphy for this exceptional program. Represented by four of the truly great composers of works for small ensembles, this program adds the timbre of radiant soprano voice to a classic work of human introspection from the repertoire by Shostakovich.
Though this was an early success, his music didn't always enjoy the approval of the Soviet authorities. His opera "The Nose" received some criticism and "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" received oven more. In later years he was to enjoy more artistic freedom, but under Stalin composers and other artists ran the risk of their work being labelled anti-state "formalism".
In some cases this could lead to "disappearances" so the threat was very real indeed. Shostakovich withdrew his 4th symphony before its premier for this reason and it wasn't performed until later under more liberal times. 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.
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