Bland / Starobin / Hao - New Music with Guitar 12 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Chihara / Smith / Ruders / Starobin - New Music with Guitar 10 [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/12/2016

For the first time, the successful series of BR-KLASSIK audio biographies is devoting itself to a 20th-century composer Dmitri Shostakovich. His symphonies are still highlights in the concert hall, and his fate has inspired great novels. But what do we really know about his life? He liked to play his cards close to his chest - and had good reason to do so... Dmitri Shostakovich himself claimed that his life was Inchrather grey and colorlessInch. In reality, it was the most exciting composer's life of the 20th century. Revolution and civil war, Stalin's murderous terror, then the Second World War, the InchthawInch under Khrushchev and finally Brezhnev's brutalist socialism the whole tragic history of the Soviet Union runs like a thread through his work. As a functionary who seemed to be loyal to the party line, he played along - but his music spoke against the regime and in favor of it's victims and of the freedom of art. InchThis is a game that can end badly,Inch Stalin threatened, probably in person. Shostakovich was thus obliged to fight his own fears as well. He was playing a double game - and knew it was dangerous. This audio biography draws on many sources, some of them still little-known in Germany. The result is a comprehensive, colorful and detailed picture of the composer's life, and contains several surprises - also with regard to his private life, which should not pale behind the historical panorama. Like every great composer, Shostakovich had his crises and affairs, his great sufferings and small joys.

Exclusive vinyl pressing of Amythyst Kiah's Pensive Pop EP. The common themes throughout this record address the lamenting external factors that can impede us on our journey in life and the struggle to accept and work through those challenges. Fear is at the center of all these songs fear of rejection, fear of change, fear of sobriety, fear of living in the present. Pensive Pop is Kiah's reinterpretation of pop/rock songs in order to bring more attention to the stories being told. Limited Edition. Record Store Day 2023.