Dmitri Shostakovich - Ballet Suites; Film Score Suites (Maxim Shostakovich)

Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

CD1:

• (01-18) Ballet Suites Nos. 1-3 (assembled by Atovmyan)
• (19-26) The Bolt, ballet suite, Op. 27a

CD2:

• (01-04) The Golden Age, ballet suite, Op. 22a
• (05-09) Zoya, film score suite, Op. 64a (assembled by Atovmyan)
• (10-14) Pirogov, film score suite, Op. 76a (assembled by Atovmyan)

Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Maxim Shostakovich, conductor

Date: 1966
Label: Venezia (original recorded by Melodiya)

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Dmitri Shostakovich (25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist, and a prominent figure of 20th-century music. Shostakovich achieved fame in the Soviet Union, but later had a complex and difficult relationship with the government. Shostakovich's music is characterized by sharp contrasts, elements of the grotesque, and ambivalent tonality; the composer was also heavily influenced by the neo-classical style pioneered by Igor Stravinsky, and (especially in his symphonies) by the post-Romanticism associated with Gustav Mahler.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich

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Maxim Shostakovich (born in Leningrad on 10 May 1938) is a Russian conductor and pianist. He is the second child of Dmitri Shostakovich and Nina Varzar. He was educated at the Moscow and Leningrad Conservatories where he studied with Igor Markevitch and Otto-Werner Mueller. Since 1975, he has conducted and popularised many of his father's lesser-known works. Maxim is the dedicatee and first performer of his father's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102. While he was principal conductor of the Moscow Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, he conducted the premiere of his father's 15th Symphony.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Shostakovich

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