Shostakovich was particularly fond of the instrument ; it has prominent roles in much of his work, including most of his symphonies and his Cello Concerto No. 2.

Other examples of nocturnes include the one for orchestra from Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1848 ), the set of three for orchestra and female choir by Claude Debussy ( who also wrote one for solo piano ) and the first movement of the Violin Concerto No. 1 ( 1948 ) by Dmitri Shostakovich.

Nordic repertoire became a staple of the orchestra, whilst other achievements included recordings of Shostakovich symphonies ( the 5th, 6th, 7th ' Leningrad ', 10th and 11th ' The Year 1905 ') and Piano Concertos ( with Cristina Ortiz ) and the William Walton Violin Concerto ( with Ida Haendel ) and Cello Concerto ( with Paul Tortelier ).

His BSO recordings included the Symphony No. 8 of Dmitri Shostakovich, and a Gramophone Award-winning release of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2 from 1988.

Rostropovich is also well known for his interpretations of standard repertoire works, including Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor and Haydn's cello concerti in C and D, Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto and the two cello concerti of Shostakovich.

** Maxim Shostakovich ( conductor ), David Oistrakh & the New Philharmonia for Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1

Lloyd Webber has made many recordings, including his BRIT Award winning Elgar Cello Concerto conducted by Yehudi Menuhin ( chosen as the finest ever version by BBC Music Magazine ), the Dvořák Cello Concerto with Václav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the London Symphony Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich and a coupling of Britten's Cello Symphony and Walton's Cello Concerto with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which was described by Gramophone magazine as " beyond any rival ".

The work is filled with quotes of other pieces by Shostakovich: the first movement quotes his Symphony No. 1 and Symphony No. 5 ; the second movement uses a Jewish theme first used by Shostakovich in his Piano Trio No. 2 ; the third movement quotes the Cello Concerto No. 1 ; and the fourth movement quotes the 19th century revolutionary song " Tormented by Grievous Bondage " and the aria " Seryozha, my love " from Shostakovich's opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

** Zubin Mehta ( conductor ), Itzhak Perlman & the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor / Glazunov: Violin Concerto in A Minor

382, Haydn Concerto in D major, Shostakovich Concerto No. 1 with the Moscow Virtuosi and Spivakov ( RCA Red Seal ); Beethoven Choral Fantasy with the Berlin Philharmonic and Abbado ( Deutsche Grammophon ); Prokofiev Concertos Nos.

** Zubin Mehta ( conductor ), Itzhak Perlman & the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor / Glazunov: Violin Concerto in A Minor

** Maxim Shostakovich ( conductor ), David Oistrakh & the New Philharmonia for Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1

The prelude is a passacaglia, a form Shostakovich had previously used in the third movement of his Violin Concerto No. 1 ( Shostakovich ) in A Minor ( Op.

** Itzhak Perlman & Pinchas Zukerman for Music for Two Violins ( Moszkowski: Suite For Two Violins / Shostakovich: Duets / Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins )

** Itzhak Perlman & Pinchas Zukerman for Music for Two Violins ( Moszkowski: Suite For Two Violins / Shostakovich: Duets / Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins )

For instance, musicologist Ludmila Mikheyeya ( who is also Ivan Sollertinsky's daughter in law ) maintains that Shostakovich played the theme and its variations for his students before the war with Germany began.

For its latter half, Shostakovich quotes Graf Danilo's entrance song, " Da geh ' ich zu Maxim ," from Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow.

For example, Shostakovich begins his C major prelude, the first piece in the cycle, with exactly the same notes that Bach uses in his own C major prelude, BWV 846, which likewise begins The Well-Tempered Clavier.

For instance, Maxim Shostakovich has said that the book gives a true picture of the political situation in the USSR and correctly represents his father's political views, but continues to speak of the book as being " about my father, not by him ".

For Shostakovich the story of 1936 was repeated, only this time he was not alone.

For practical reasons ( not to mention those of personal survival ), Shostakovich began using two distinct musical idioms in which to compose.

For example, the galactic development combine CHOAM in the original Dune story becomes NOAMCHOMSKI, an acronym which expands to the name Neutralis Organizational Abba Mercantile Condominium Havatampa Orthonovum Minnehaha Shostakovich Kategorial Imperative – a name whose style mocks that of the equally-impenetrable Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles – and is mentioned and expanded on by some characters to the point of compulsion.

For example, Melodiya released performances of works by Peter Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, which were valued for their authenticity.

Petrenko undertook to record all of the Shostakovich symphonies as well as those of Rachmaninov with the Piano Concertos.

Dmitri Shostakovich, in particular, admired klezmer music for embracing both the ecstasy and the despair of human life and quoted several melodies in his chamber masterpieces, the Piano Quintet in G minor, op.

The Piano Quintet in G Minor, opus 57, by Dmitri Shostakovich is one of his best known chamber works.

Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich, but after the visit of the Italian composer Luigi Nono to the USSR, he took up the serial technique in works such as Music for Piano and Chamber Orchestra ( 1964 ).

* Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet

* Piano Concerto No. 2 ( Shostakovich ) by Dmitri Shostakovich

After completing the opera, Shostakovich used this Jewish idiom in his Second Piano Trio, including a macabre Jewish dance in its finale that is said to reflect his horror on hearing the news of the Holocaust then reaching Russia.

* Shostakovich: Concerto No. 1 for Piano, Trumpet and Strings ( with Cristina Ortiz and Rodney Senior ); Piano Concerto No. 2 ( with Cristina Ortiz ); Three Fantastic Dances.

Shostakovich dedicated his Second Piano Trio op.

In March, 2006, Bronfman performed the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1 with the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich.

In Disney's film Fantasia 2000, an adaptation of the tale is set to the first movement of the Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major by Dmitri Shostakovich.

120, No. 1 ; Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola and Piano Op.

* Shostakovich: Sonata for Violin and Piano.

Among her engagements for September, 2004-2005 season are performances of the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto and Sergei Rachmaninov-Paganini Variations with the Augusta Symphony ; Schumann Piano Concerto with the Curtis Institute Orchestra in Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall ; Shostakovich Concerto No. 1 with the Philadelphia Classical Symphony and S. Rachmaninov-Paganini Variations with Rutgers University Orchestra in Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall.

Dmitri Shostakovich ’ s Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op.

Likewise, the composers ' second fugues ( A minor for Shostakovich, C minor for Bach ) utilize very similar opening rhythms for their fugue subjects ( two 16th notes followed by 3 eighth notes, twice in a row ).

Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Opus 43, between September 1935 and May 1936, after abandoning some preliminary sketch material.

The Symphony No. 8 in C minor ( Opus 65 ) by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in the summer of 1943, and first performed on November 4 of that year by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky, to whom the work is dedicated.

Shostakovich's Eighth: C minor Symphony against the Grain in Bartlett ( ed ) Shostakovich in Context.

* Hulme, Derek C., Dimitri Shostakovich, Scarecrow Press 2002

* Dmitri Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues ( Shostakovich ), Prelude 1 ( C major )