Eugenio Catone - Dmitri Shostakovich: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 3 - Eugenio Catone - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Eugenio Catone continues the development of Shostakovich's complete piano works bypresenting the third volume. Few piano cycles of the 20th century can boast an impact and a resonancecomparable to those of Dmitri Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87. This work,which holds a special place both in the composer's output and in the history of the genre itself,represents a significant return to writing for his instrument, seventeen years after Piano Concertono.1 Op. 35 (1933), in a context deeply changed both on a personal level and in relation to theevolution of his musical language. Shostakovich held Op. 87 in special consideration he recordedseveral numbers on multiple occasions and devoted himself to transcribing each Prelude andFugue for several performers, with the aim of recording the entire work with a home recorder,thus making it's polyphonic architecture as clear as possible.