Shostakovich War Songs
19 Jul 2022 – 19:30 @ St Mary’s Church – (opening time 18:45) Shostakovich War Songs
7:30pm Tuesday 19 July
St Mary’s Church
Tickets
£0.0 to £32.0
Julia Sitkovetsky – soprano
Dmitry Sitkovetsky – violin
Tim Hugh – cello
Iain Burnside – piano
The first of two stellar chamber concerts featuring the award-winning
broadcaster and acclaimed pianist Iain Burnside in the company of three
oustanding collaborators for a genuinely unusual programme which centres on
Dimitri Shostakovich’s War Songs – a collection that is by no means as serious
as the name might suggest!
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The War Songs were a unique project: Dimitri Shostakovich was assigned by
the Leningrad Conservatory in July 1941 to make transcriptions for voice and
two string instruments (violin & cello) for the Soviet War Effort: military trucks
would carry three or four musicians in the back who would go to the front line
or military hospital and perform popular tunes of the time with accompaniment
of violin & cello.
Shostakovich made 27 arrangements of opera arias, popular songs, melodies from the movies of the
1930s. None of the music is his own, but all the arrangements are. The collection includes songs & arias
by Mussorgsky, Dargomyzhsky, and Ippolitov-Ivanov, as well as Rossini and Bizet – all in Russian.
Rachmaninov – Songs (voice & piano)
Shostakovich – Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67 S
Shostakovich – War Songs (voice, violin & piano)
Shostakovich – Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok Op. 127 (voice & piano trio)
Tickets: £32, £24, £14, £9 (18 and under £5, FREE in adult £9 seats)
Photo: Julia Sitkovetsky (credit: Victoria Cadisch)