Shostakovich - 24 Preludes and Fugues - Nikolayeva (dvd) 2008
Classical | DVD | NTSC 4:3 | covers | DVD´s FULL No compression | 7.87 Gb (DVD9)
Audio: PCM Stereo | 164m | Record: 1992, Relesase: 2008 | Label: EuroArts
| “ | Some DVDs are self-recommending; i.e., they offer definitive performances by great artists. That’s the case in this 1992 BBC-derived production of Tatiana Nikolayeva playing Shostakovich’s Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, a work she inspired and which the composer dedicated to her. They met in 1950; Nikolayeva a contestant in a Bach Piano competition, Shostakovich on the jury. Her playing of Bach’s music decided the composer to write his own set of Preludes and Fugues, after the master’s great work. She was only 26 at the time and in 1992, we see a grandmotherly figure, pudgy, hair in a bun, but also a musician/pianist of the highest order playing a work she knew intimately and recorded often. Furthermore, it’s a work that arguably is the greatest solo piano work of the 20th century, a work in which Shostakovich laid bare his soul, writing some of his most intimate and moving music... | ” |
