Shostakovich: Jazz Suites; Ballet Suites; Concertos

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Label
Capriccio
Release Date
July 4, 2025
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Dmitri Shostakovich
    • PERFORMER
      Vladimir Spivakov, Reinhold Friedrich, Thomas Duis, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Deutsches Sym
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 04, 2025
    • UPC
      845221074603
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      C7460
    • LABEL
      Capriccio
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE

Dmitri Shostakovich is first and foremost known for his symphonies and string quartets - works that contain some humor, but even more darkness, brooding, and desolation. But there is the jaunty side of the great composer, too, and nowhere does it come to it's cheerful fore than in these works, the Jazz Suites, the Tahiti Trot, and his Ballet Suites. This set, accompanying Capriccio's boxes of Shostakovich's Symphonies, Film Music, Orchestral Songs, and Chamber Music, is rounded out with two concertos. In the playful Piano Concerto, that humorous side comes through in the many quotations of songs, own works, and Beethoven. Only the grim Violin Concerto, held back, like the 4th Symphony, for fear of retribution, offers no smile.