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Background: When considering the music of Dmitry Shostakovich, with its focus on theatrical projects in his earlier years and symphonic works thereafter, it is easy to forget the significance of his piano music as a vehicle for some of his most experimental and personal ideas.

However this should not come as a surprise, given that the composer was a prize-winner in the 1927 Chopin Competition in Warsaw and appeared frequently, if often reluctantly, as an exponent of his own piano music and that of others. The present recording features some of Shostakovich’s most important piano works, their often radical tendencies fitting in well with the heady years of artistic experimentation in the Soviet Union, before the imposition of the principles of Socialist Realism led to a cultural clampdown.

CATALOGUE NR: 8555781
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.77 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 01-Sep-2003

COMPOSER: Dmitri Shostakovich
TRACKS: 24 Preludes op.34. Aphorisms op.13. Sonata op.12. Three Fantastic Dances op.5.
ARTISTS: Konstantin Scherbakov      

- Oct-2003 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Penguin Guide 3 star 'Beautifully recorded at Potton Hall in Suffolk, Konstantin Scherbakov gives thought-provoking and wonderfully controlled accounts of the Op.34 Preludes. He plays the whole recital with the keyboard mastery we associate with him. Strongly recommended'

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