Daniele Gatti conducts Stravinsky and Shostakovich : With the Vienna Philharmonic at the Wiener Musikverein / Christoph Engel, director.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Engel, Christoph, film director.

Gatti, Daniele, performer.

Philharmonic, Vienna, performer.

Unitel.

Language:

English

Genre:

Internet videos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 36 min., 34 sec.)) : sound, color.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Unitel, 2024.

System Details:

digital

video file

Summary:

At the heart of Vienna's legendary Musikverein, the Wiener Philharmoniker perform Stravinsky's ethereal Apollo and Shostakovich's somber Symphony No. 10 in E minor, led by Italian conductor Daniele Gatti! “Praising the Philharmoniker is like saying that the art of the violin thrives in Vienna": the words of composer Richard Strauss have never rung truer than in the glow of this sublime interpretation of Stravinsky's Apollo. The elegantly expressive motifs of this neo-classical ballet, composed in 1928 for string orchestra, resound with crystalline beauty under the bows of the orchestra often considered to be the world's finest. Apollo provides a marked contrast with the darkness and ardor of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 in E minor, composed during the Cold War and completed shortly after Stalin's death. This work points an accusatory finger at the artistic Zhdanovism of the time — the Soviet totalitarian censorship movement promoted by Andrei Zhdanov from 1946 to 1953, which sought to impose a new, universal conception of artistic creation on the world. The profound and chilling second movement portrays a ruthless Stalin, while the third movement introduces Shostakovich's musical acronym DSCH (D - E-flat - C - B) for the first time, a sarcastic jab in the face of the repressive ruler he outlived.

Contents:

Apollo / Igor Stravinsky

Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93 / Dmitri Shostakovich.

Participant:

Daniele Gatti ; Vienna Philharmonic.

Notes:

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Contains:

Container of: Stravinsky, Igor. Apollo.

Container of: Shostakovich, Dmitri. Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93.

OCLC:

1527807183

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