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The Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra, Op. 35, was completed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1933. The concerto was premiered on 15 October 1933 in the season opening concerts of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra with Shostakovich at the piano , Fritz Stiedry conducting, and Alexander Schmidt playing the trumpet solos.
Piano 1932–1933 35 Piano Concerto No. 1: Piano, solo trumpet, and strings 1933 Originally assigned Op. 34. [59] "I Love..." Tenor and piano 1933 Nearly completed. Text possibly by Shostakovich. [60] 37 Incidental music to the play The Human Comedy by Pavel Sukhotin, based on the eponymous cycle of novels by Honoré de Balzac: Small orchestra ...
The Scherzo in F-sharp minor is one of the few surviving examples of Dmitri Shostakovich's early works, [1] along with five of his Eight Preludes for piano. [2] It is commonly dated as being written during the autumn or early winter months of 1919, the composer's first year at the Petrograd Conservatory (now the Saint Petersburg Conservatory), when he was aged 13.
In April 1957, he and his son performed a two piano arrangement of the work for the Ministry of Culture, and then it was later premiered for the public at the Moscow Conservatory. [1] Despite the apparently simple nature of this concerto, the public has always regarded it warmly, and it stands as one of Shostakovich's most popular pieces. [5]
The opening bars of the first movement in piano and cello reduction, showing the initial themes of the cello and woodwind. The opening motive recurs throughout the concerto (except in the second movement), giving this concerto a cyclic structure. The second, third and fourth movements are played continuously.
The Piano Sonata No. 2 was Shostakovich's first solo piano composition since the 24 Preludes, Op. 34 from 1933 and his second attempt at composing a piano sonata in the key of B minor. [ 1 ] In late 1942, Shostakovich and his family were living in the city of Kuybyshev (present-day Samara), where they had been evacuated by the Soviet government ...
The Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva: Suite for Contralto and Piano (Russian: Шесть стихотворений Марины Цветаевой: Сюита для контральто и фортепиано, romanized: Shest stikhotvoreniy Mariny Tsvetayevoy: Syuita dlya kontralto i fortepiano), [1] Op. 143 is a song cycle by Dmitri Shostakovich.
On the right of this Russian stamp is a depiction of Shostakovich together with Sviatoslav Richter and David Oistrakh after the premiere of the Violin Sonata. Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major, Op. 134 in the autumn of 1968 in Moscow, [1] completing it on October 23.