0013491361024

Censored Anthems

Parlando; Ian Niederhoffer; Aubree Oliverson

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Format: CD

Cat No: DE3610

Release Date:  28 February 2025

Label:  Outhere / Delos

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  0013491361024

Genres:  Classical  Vocal  

Composer/Series:  Censored Anthems

  • Description

    A Musical America New Artist and BBC Rising Star, Ian Niederhoffer is a fast-rising, young conductor. Here, together with his orchestra Parlando, he explores music as a tool of cultural resilience in the face of censorship, particularly within the Soviet Union. This eclectic program includes Shostakovich's Adagio from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a work infamously censored after Stalin's disapproval, the Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra by Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a composer whose career was shaped by persecution during Stalin's anti-cosmopolitan campaign, and Edvard Mirzoyan's Symphony for String Orchestra and Timpani, which is a powerful testament to Armenian cultural survival despite Soviet Russification. Inspired by Parlando's mission that "every concert tells a story", the album ends with three narrated tracks detailing Soviet censorship.