Skride/Gewandhaus/Nelsons - Dmitri Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 - ACC10478

Skride/Gewandhaus/Nelsons - Dmitri Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 - ACC20478

Dmitri Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

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Cat No: ACC10478

Release Date: 28 February 2020

Label: Accentus Music - Dvd / Accentus Music

Packaging Type: Blu-Ray Packaging

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 4260234831993

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: Dmitri Shostakovich

Release Date: 28 February 2020

Label: Accentus Music - Dvd / Accentus Music

Packaging Type: DVD Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 4260234832006

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: Dmitri Shostakovich

Description
In Shostakovich‘s Violin Concerto No. 1, the violin does not allow itself a break, continually tells its dark story, revolves around the same thoughts, jokes and mocks, stutters, gets into the vicious circle of ostinato Passa-caglia bass lines, loses itself in the loneliness of the extended cadenza and again and again falls into beguilingly beautiful singing. The Stalin regime would not have missed the fact that although a great many things run in small circles here, nothing „runs smoothly“, which is why the premiere did not take place until 1955, after Stalin‘s death. Peter Tchaikovsky initially thought his „Symphony of Fate“ was a failure and believed himself to be at the end of his creative powers. The audience‘s enthusiasm for the work grew with each performance. It was probably the composer‘s nature, plagued by self-doubt, that made it almost impossible for him to develop a self-confident attitude to his own creative power. This recording of the 5th Symphony is another milestone in Andris Nelson‘s Tchaikovsky cycle with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.

Description
In Shostakovich‘s Violin Concerto No. 1, the violin does not allow itself a break, continually tells its dark story, revolves around the same thoughts, jokes and mocks, stutters, gets into the vicious circle of ostinato Passa-caglia bass lines, loses itself in the loneliness of the extended cadenza and again and again falls into beguilingly beautiful singing. The Stalin regime would not have missed the fact that although a great many things run in small circles here, nothing „runs smoothly“, which is why the premiere did not take place until 1955, after Stalin‘s death. Peter Tchaikovsky initially thought his „Symphony of Fate“ was a failure and believed himself to be at the end of his creative powers. The audience‘s enthusiasm for the work grew with each performance. It was probably the composer‘s nature, plagued by self-doubt, that made it almost impossible for him to develop a self-confident attitude to his own creative power. This recording of the 5th Symphony is another milestone in Andris Nelson‘s Tchaikovsky cycle with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.