Andrew Kirkman

Contemplating Shostakovich: Life, Music and Film (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Ivashkin, Alexander

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Contemplating Shostakovich marks an important new stage in the understanding of Shostakovich and his working environment. Each chapter covers aspects of the composer's output in the context of his life and cultural milieu. This invaluable collection offers remarkable new insight, in both depth and range, into the nature of the composer's working circumstances and of his response to them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317161011
• Artikelnr.: 45096670

Autorenporträt

Alexander Ivashkin was a professional cellist with an international career. He was Professor of Music, Director of Classical Performance and Director of the Centre for Russian Music at Goldsmiths, University of London. He recorded over forty award-winning CDs on Chandos, Naxos and BMG, and published books on Penderecki, Ives, Schnittke and Rostropovich. Andrew Kirkman is Peyton and Barber Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham. As a musicologist, he specializes in music of the fifteenth century, and his book The Cultural Life of the Early Polyphonic Mass: Medieval Context to Modern Revival was recently published. He is an active performer of music from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, and his Renaissance vocal ensemble, 'The Binchois Consort', has to date recorded nine highly-acclaimed discs on the Hyperion label.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Part I Music and Style: Through the looking glass:
reflections on the significance of words and symbols in Shostakovich's
music, Elizabeth Wilson; Shostakovich, old believers and new minimalists,
Alexander Ivashkin; Five Satires (Pictures of the Past) by Dmitrii
Shostakovich (op. 109): the musical unity of a vocal cycle, Gilbert C.
Rappaport; Moving towards an understanding of Shostakovich's Viola Sonata,
Ivan Sokolov, translated by Elizabeth Wilson. Part II Film: Madness by
design: Hamlet's state as defined through music, Erik Heine; Stalin (and
Lenin) at the movies, John Riley; Hamlet, King Lear and their companions:
the other side of film music, Olga Dombrovskaia. Part III Life and
Documents: Arrangements for Piano Four Hands in Dmitrii Shostakovich's
creative work and performance, Inna Barsova; Shostakovich and Soviet Eros:
forbidden fruit in the realm of communal Communism, Vladimir Orlov; A
Soviet opera in America, Terry Klefstad; Shostakovich in the mid-1930s:
operatic plans and implementations (regarding the attribution of an unknown
autograph), Olga Digonskaia, translated by Stephen Dinkeldein; Select
bibliography; Index.

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Contents: Preface; Part I Music and Style: Through the looking glass: reflections on the significance of words and symbols in Shostakovich's music, Elizabeth Wilson; Shostakovich, old believers and new minimalists, Alexander Ivashkin; Five Satires (Pictures of the Past) by Dmitrii Shostakovich (op. 109): the musical unity of a vocal cycle, Gilbert C. Rappaport; Moving towards an understanding of Shostakovich's Viola Sonata, Ivan Sokolov, translated by Elizabeth Wilson. Part II Film: Madness by design: Hamlet's state as defined through music, Erik Heine; Stalin (and Lenin) at the movies, John Riley; Hamlet, King Lear and their companions: the other side of film music, Olga Dombrovskaia. Part III Life and Documents: Arrangements for Piano Four Hands in Dmitrii Shostakovich's creative work and performance, Inna Barsova; Shostakovich and Soviet Eros: forbidden fruit in the realm of communal Communism, Vladimir Orlov; A Soviet opera in America, Terry Klefstad; Shostakovich in the mid-1930s: operatic plans and implementations (regarding the attribution of an unknown autograph), Olga Digonskaia, translated by Stephen Dinkeldein; Select bibliography; Index.

Rezensionen

'... a highly readable excellently edited collection and an important contribution to the burgeoning science of 'Shostakovichology'.' Russian Review 'Contemplating Shostakovich: Life, Music and Film, edited by Alexander Ivashkin and Andrew Kirkman, expertly fills gaps in our knowledge of the composer, his times and his music, bringing Western (U.S. and British) and Russian scholars together in a robust collection ... a collection that contains a healthy mix of approaches to research and contains essays that will have value to all interested in the continued study of Shostakovich's life and his music, and the cultures in which it lives'. DSCH Journal '... Contemplating Shostakovich illuminates key works through detailed interpretations rooted in a strong command of the extensive secondary literature'. Philip Ross Bullock, Slavonic and East European Review 'Dealing largely with musical style and compositional method, Contemplating Shostakovich is satisfyingly unified, remaining close to the musical text and "questions of personal and political exegesis". The image of the composer that emerges - one who was a product of Soviet culture rather than a victim of it-is familiar, but the volume nevertheless abounds in new details and insights.' Slavic Review