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Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Works

by Michal Kaňka, Jaromír Klepáč

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Peter Mason Praga Digitalis are costing me too much money, but their catalogue is amazing. This album feeds my ongoing Shostakovich phase. The first work here, the sonata Op 40, is, by Dmitri's standards, an almost cheerful piece. The other long piece, Sonata Op 147, is also not typical Shostakovich. It seems to have an air of peace that I do not associate with his work: pleased acceptance of life's sorrow, rather than the sense of dread that overshadows the Quartets and some of the orchestral works.
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Juxtaposition of a youthful, tumultuous and virtuoso sonata (1934), still influenced by Tchaikovsky and Miaskovsky, and his very last score (5 July 1975), for viola, a Winterreise of the composer through his own memories, ending with an homage to Beethoven. This crepuscular work blends direct quotations with parodical, sometimes even derisory, associations. Here, for the first time, it is played on the cello in its original tessitura. Two genre pieces illustrate the fabulous melodic ease of a composer obliged to write a large number film scores and incidental music during his ‘pariah’ period.

Awards: 5 Diapason, Opus d’Or, Audiophile Audition, Ensemble, Luisterrijk, Gramophone, Klassik.com

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released February 1, 2010

Michal Kaňka (Cello)
Jaromír Klepáč (Piano)

Recorded in Prague, November 2, December 15, 2009

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