Oeuvres pour violoncelle et piano de Ludwig van Beethoven, Claude Debussy, Nadia Boulanger, Rita Strohl & Dimitri Chostakovitch (sonate pour violoncelle et piano op 40).

répétition générale du Concours international de Musique de Chambre de Lyon.

Oeuvres de Beethoven, Boulanger, Debussy, Strohl

Guillaume Leroy, viola

Aurélien Pascal, cello

Victor Metral, piano

Chostakovitch : Trio n° 1 op 8, Sept Romances sur des poèmes d’Alexander Blok  op 127 (extraits)

Haydn : Trio n° 39 « Les Tziganes »

Ravel : Trio

Dmitri Schostakowitsch : Briefe an Iwan Sollertinski

herausgegeben von Dmitri Sollertinski und Ljudmila Kownazkaja

Shostakovich without a mask. Nowhere does the Soviet composer reveal himself as candidly as in his letters to his best friend Ivan Sollertinsky, Russia’s most brilliant musicologist. They met in Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad) when Shostakovich was 20 and Sollertinsky was 24. The two immediately became inseparable. And when they were apart, they wrote letters or postcards to each other. Only Shostakovich’s letters have survived. They paint a picture of two brilliant young artists who enthusiastically throw themselves into the current debates without forgetting to enjoy life. Nowhere else do we experience Shostakovich in such an intimate way. From 1935 onwards, with Stalin’s terror, the tone gradually changed. The two were no longer so sure that skill and arguments would prevail. The German invasion of the Soviet Union and the encirclement of Leningrad by Nazi troops separated the friends: Shostakovich was evacuated to Samara (then Kuibyshev), Sollertinsky to Novosibirsk. A happy ending seemed possible when Shostakovich moved to Moscow in 1943 and arranged a professorship for his friend at the Moscow Conservatory. But Sollertinski, weakened by the hardships of war and bullying at the Leningrad Philharmonic, succumbed to a heart attack in 1944 at the age of 41. For Shostakovich, this was a catastrophe. His letters form a monument to a great friendship and provide intimate insights into the cultural and political development of the Soviet Union. Translated from Russian by Ursula Keller

CD Dolce Vita LDV 81

Dmitri Shostakovich : Piano Trio n° 1 in C minor Op 8 / Piano Trio n° 2 in E minor Op 67

Mieczyslaw Weinberg : Piano Trio in A minor Op 24

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) : Trio pour Piano en Do Major Hob XV : 27 (1795)

Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996) : Trio avec Piano opus 24

Olivier Greif (1950-2000) : Rondo pour Piano « 42nd Street » (1970)

Dimitri Chostakovitch (1906-1975) : Trio n° 2 opus 67 (1944)

(à la mémoire d’Ivan Sollertinsky)