Shostakovich/Weinberg/Mirzoyan: Censored Anthems

A Musical America New Artist and BBC Rising Star, Ian Niederhoffer is a fast-rising, young conductor. Here, together with his orchestra Parlando, he explores music as a tool of cultural resilience in the face of censorship, particularly within the Soviet Union. This eclectic program includes Shostakovich’s Adagio from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a work infamously censored after Stalin’s disapproval, the Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra by Mieczysław Weinberg, a composer whose career was shaped by persecution during Stalin’s anti-cosmopolitan campaign, and Edvard Mirzoyan’s Symphony for String Orchestra and Timpani, which is a powerful testament to Armenian cultural survival despite Soviet Russification. Inspired by Parlando’s mission that “every concert tells a story”, the album ends with three narrated tracks detailing Soviet censorship.

1: Adagio
2: I. Allegretto Cantabile
3: II. Lento - Adagio
4: III. Allegro Moderato Poco Rubato
5: I. Andante Patetico - Allegro Moderato
6: II. Allegro Ma Non Troppo
7: III. Adagio - Andante Doloroso
8: IV. Allegro Vivo
9: Ian Niederhoffer On Shostakovich's 'Adagio'
10: Ian Niederhoffer On Weinberg's 'Concertino'
11: Ian Niederhoffer On Mirzoyan's 'Symphony'

Composer: Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Edvard Mirzoyan, Dmitri Shostakovich

Conductor: Ian Niederhoffer

Number of Discs: 1

Orchestra: Parlando

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