As a tribute to Shostakovich on the centenary of his birth this month, this program looks at his outstanding set of Preludes and Fugues Op. 87 from a musical perspective, focusing on their great ...

Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues pay tribute to JS Bach, but are they parodies? Sometimes they sound it. Peter Donohoe doesn’t think so. Even where Shostakovich’s music is often mined for sarcasm ...

Shostakovich’s great keyboard cycle, the 24 Preludes and Fugues, still carries something of an aura more than six decades after its creation. This is music of a strange, abstract and solitary beauty.

The Russian pianist Rem Urasin is most closely associated with Chopin, winning numerous prizes and performing every piece the composer wrote over the course of 11 concerts in 2009/2010. Here, though, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Anthony Tommasini IN 1950 Shostakovich attended a competition in Leipzig, Germany, held to honor the bicentennial of Bach’s death. There he was ...

Generally, short preludes are followed by extended fugues, both understandably a witness to extreme mood-swings and uncertain temper. Even a direction such as tranquillo is tinged with irony and the ...

Some musical masterpieces transcend mere euphony to become a matter of life and death. Composed in 1950-51 by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), the 24 Preludes and Fugues, Opus 87 for piano represented ...

Tatyana Nikolayeva, Shostakovich's muse via her Bach playing, guarded the monument and was acclaimed here in the 1980s. Her interpretation was iron-cast but grey alongside Levit's rainbow palette.

Dmitri Shostakovich cites Johann Sebastian Bach as a key influence on his development as a musician. Vladimir Ashkenazy opens this hour playing Shostakovich's Prelude and Fugue No. 15. This piece is ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The pianist returned to Carnegie Hall with the first complete performance of the 24 Preludes and Fugues there. By Seth Colter Walls The ...

Shostakovich Preludes, Schumann Fantasy Pieces, & Kreisler's Liebesfreud : From the TopA 15-year-old pianist performs the music of Shostakovich. She's joined by a teenage cellist performing Schumann, ...

Peter Donohoe’s clean-cut and perceptive keyboard workmanship attests to a natural affinity for this composer’s idiom, as numerous details bear out. He imbues the G minor’s meditative aura with a ...