The news here is not the fine performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1933 set of 24 Preludes for piano, Op. 34, although on those grounds alone the album would be worth the purchase price. Pianist Jascha Nemtsov offers lively readings of these preludes with a fine feel for the quintessentially Russian sarcasm that creeps into many of them and delightfully jousts with their neo-Romantic formality. Nemtsov comes from the same Siberian region where Vsevolod Zaderatsky, born in 1891, was exiled for much of his life, and he has ...
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The news here is not the fine performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1933 set of 24 Preludes for piano, Op. 34, although on those grounds alone the album would be worth the purchase price. Pianist Jascha Nemtsov offers lively readings of these preludes with a fine feel for the quintessentially Russian sarcasm that creeps into many of them and delightfully jousts with their neo-Romantic formality. Nemtsov comes from the same Siberian region where Vsevolod Zaderatsky, born in 1891, was exiled for much of his life, and he has championed this little-known composer's music. Zaderatsky's exile came about even before the major wave of Stalinist repression, likely because he had the bad luck to have been a music teacher for the family of the Czar and specifically for Tsarevich Alexei, the heir to the throne until the murder of the entire ruling family in 1918. These preldues were composed in 1934, about a year after Shostakovich's set. Zaderatsky had been allowed to return to Moscow at the time and would...
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