(2017) Shostakovitch : Piano Trios & Violin Sonata nbr_cd:Composers This was an exaggeration

This was an exaggeration

Nine fortepianos were used for these recordings

and again present in the opera Monsieur de Pourceaugnac

floating on a murmur of low strings

(2017) Shostakovitch : Piano Trios & Violin Sonata nbr_cd:Composers This was an exaggeration*** Cl du Mois ResMusica *** This music draws incredible strength from the violent intersection of an overpowering will to live and the inevitability of death. First comes hope, tenderness, magical and miraculous flights. Followed by sarcasm, irony, revolt. And finally nostalgia, sluggishness, despair, and the hopeless aspect of an opaque hereafter with no return. As Shostakovich himself said, If you play my music well, flies should drop dead. The