Shostakovich: Violin Concertos 1 & 2

Pochekin, Ivan, Russian National Orchestra, Uryupin, Valentin

PH 19073

Ivan Pochekin is one of the most brilliant exponents of the Russian school of violin playing in his generation. The whirlwind progress of his career began in 2005, when he won the Third International Niccolò Paganini Violin Competition in Moscow. • He said about this recording: „Shostakovich’s music very accurately conveys what was happening in the lives of people in my country until very recently. I feel it deeply and want to convey it to the audience, as if tracing the link between past and present, preserving authenticity. Concerto No. 1 (1948) is focused on emotions; here the protagonist is full of energy and hope and there is inner expansion. As for Concerto No. 2 (1967), it has a different philosophy, its emotions seem to have been crystallized. Wisdom and the composer’s outside perspective prevail.“ • The gestation of the First Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 77 reflects the mood in the Soviet Union of those days, the years of the “Cold War” that followed the Second World War. Due to the restrictive cultural policy of the Soviet regime with regard to contemporary music Shostakovich decided to withhold the work for seven years, till 1955. Shostakovich’s Second Violin Concerto in C sharp minor op. 129 (1967) is his last concertante work.

CD x 1

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2.03.2020

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