Generally, short preludes are followed by extended fugues, both understandably a witness to extreme mood-swings and uncertain temper. Even a direction such as tranquillo is tinged with irony and the ...

Shostakovich`s 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, represents one of the fascinating if seldom performed landmarks of modern piano music. Patterned after J.S. Bach`s ”Well-Tempered Clavier,” the 1950-51 ...

Tatyana Nikolayeva, Shostakovich's muse via her Bach playing, guarded the monument and was acclaimed here in the 1980s. Her interpretation was iron-cast but grey alongside Levit's rainbow palette.

As a tribute to Shostakovich on the centenary of his birth this month, this program looks at his outstanding set of Preludes and Fugues Op. 87 from a musical perspective, focusing on their great ...

It’s fascinating to compare this nuanced set with the performance by the Soviet pianist who inspired Shostakovich in 1950 Shostakovich composed his 24 Preludes and Fugues in 1950 and 1951, between his ...

The generation of Russian performers to which the pianists Tatiana Nikolayeva and Sviatoslav Richter as well as the original members of the Borodin Quartet belonged were Shostakovich's contemporaries, ...

Shostakovich’s great keyboard cycle, the 24 Preludes and Fugues, still carries something of an aura more than six decades after its creation. This is music of a strange, abstract and solitary beauty.

(24) Preludes and Fugues, Movements: No. 1 in C Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Olli Mustonen, Piano (24) Preludes and Fugues, Movements: No. 5 in D Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Olli Mustonen, Piano ...

the Sarah Rothenberg and John Gibbons at The Menil Collection. Selected pieces from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 are preformed by pianist Sarah ...

When pianist Craig Sheppard bought his first score for Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, in London in 1975, he didn’t quite know what he had in his hands. “It was sitting around, barely ...

Last Sunday afternoon, virtuoso Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov performed at Mandel Hall for an extraordinary performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues. Melnikov is a graduate of ...

This work, modelled on Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, is forever associated with Tatiana Nikolayeva, the great Russian pianist for whom Shostakovich wrote it in 1951. So what does the 36-year-old ...