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Shostakovich & Pupils, Vol. 1 / Damiano
Piano Classics

Shostakovich & Pupils, Vol. 1 / Damiano

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Details

Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Artist
Fernanda Damiano
Format
CD
Label
Piano Classics
Released
Jan 19, 2024
Catalog #
PCL10301
UPC
5029365103015

About

The first volume in an adventurous new series juxtaposing the piano music of Shostakovich with his most talented pupils. All three of the younger composers here demonstrate the individuality of their own voice.

Least known of them now is German Galynin (1922-1966). In 1951, the year in which he paradoxically obtained the Stalin Prize for his Epic Poem on Russian Themes, Galynin began suffering from schizophrenia that he was admitted to an asylum, and continued to received psychiatric care for the rest of his short life. He wrote this five-movement Suite in 1945, while still a student at the Conservatoire, and it alternates somewhat prophetically between moods of mania and melancholy.

Shostakovich himself cited Alemdar Karamanov (1934-2007) as one of the most original composers of his time. Ukrainian born but of Turkish parentage, he studied in Moscow before returning to Crimea, converting to Christianity and thus consigning himself to obscurity at the time, and his later music shares an experimental, visionary quality with contemporary pioneers such as Schnittke, Denisov, and Gubaidulina. The Variations for piano (1962) belong to the last phase of his Moscow period.

The career of Boris Tchaikovsky (1925-1996) proceeded along smoother lines. The single-movement Sonatina from 1946 is again a student work, albeit a highly talented and disciplined one, with the kind of thorough-going understanding of Classical form which Shostakovich evidently instilled in and expected from his students.

Fernanda Damiano juxtaposes these pianistic rarities with several pieces which demonstrate the breadth of style and confidence of artistic personality that made Shostakovich stand out from his contemporaries. Alongside the fleet-fingered brilliance of the Three Fantastic Dances and the Polka from his ballet The Golden Age, she plays a trio of Preludes and Fugues (Nos. 1, 7 & 24) from the collection he wrote for Tatiana Nikolaeva, another pupil, in 1950-51.

Tracklist 17 tracks

  1. 1 Variations 09:48
    Track
    1
    Title
    Variations
    Duration
    09:48
    Composer
    Alemdar Sabitovych Karamanov
    Performer
    Fernanda Damiano
  2. 2 I. Toccata 02:07
    Track
    2
    Title
    I. Toccata
    Duration
    02:07
    Composer
    German Germanovich Galynin
    Performer
    Fernanda Damiano
  3. 3 II. Intermezzo 04:10
    Track
    3
    Title
    II. Intermezzo
    Duration
    04:10
    Composer
    German Germanovich Galynin
    Performer
    Fernanda Damiano
  4. 4 III. Dance 01:06
    Track
    4
    Title
    III. Dance
    Duration
    01:06
    Composer
    German Germanovich Galynin
    Performer
    Fernanda Damiano
  5. 5 IV. Aria 03:09
    Track
    5
    Title
    IV. Aria
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    German Germanovich Galynin
    Performer
    Fernanda Damiano
  6. 6 V. Finale 01:58
    Track
    6
    Title
    V. Finale
    Duration
    01:58
    Composer
    German Germanovich Galynin
    Performer
    Fernanda Damiano
  7. 7 Piano Sonatina 03:58
    Track
    7
    Title
    Piano Sonatina
    Duration
    03:58
    Composer
    Boris Tchaikovsky
    Performer
    Fernanda Damiano
  8. 8 Prelude No. 1 in C Major 02:47
    Track
    8
    Title
    Prelude No. 1 in C Major
    Duration
    02:47
    Composer
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Performer
    Fernanda Damiano
  9. 9 Fugue No. 1 in C Major 02:42
    Track
    9
    Title
    Fugue No. 1 in C Major
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Performer
    Fernanda Damiano
  10. 10 Prelude No. 7 in A Major 01:24
    Track
    10
    Title
    Prelude No. 7 in A Major
    Duration
    01:24
    Composer
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Performer
    Fernanda Damiano
  11. 11 Fugue No. 7 in A Major 02:15
    Track
    11
    Title
    Fugue No. 7 in A Major
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Performer
    Fernanda Damiano
  12. 12 Prelude No. 24 in D Minor 03:40
    Track
    12
    Title
    Prelude No. 24 in D Minor
    Duration
    03:40
    Composer
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Performer
    Fernanda Damiano
  13. 13 Fugue No. 24 in D Minor 07:20
    Track
    13
    Title
    Fugue No. 24 in D Minor
    Duration
    07:20
    Composer
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Performer
    Fernanda Damiano
  14. 14 No. 1. March 01:35
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 1. March
    Duration
    01:35
    Composer
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Performer
    Fernanda Damiano
  15. 15 No. 2. Waltz 01:47
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 2. Waltz
    Duration
    01:47
    Composer
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Performer
    Fernanda Damiano
  16. 16 No. 3. Polka 01:05
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 3. Polka
    Duration
    01:05
    Composer
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Performer
    Fernanda Damiano
  17. 17 Zolotoy vek (The Golden Age), Op. 22, Act III: Polka (version for piano) 02:09
    Track
    17
    Title
    Zolotoy vek (The Golden Age), Op. 22, Act III: Polka (version for piano)
    Duration
    02:09
    Composer
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Performer
    Fernanda Damiano