Fernanda Damiano * Shostakovich & Pupils Vol. 2 - Weinberg Sviridov [New CD] Psychedelic Ribs Upon the Mountain

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Fernanda Damiano * Shostakovich & Pupils Vol. 2 - Weinberg Sviridov [New CD] Psychedelic Ribs Upon the MountainWhile the solo piano output of Dmitri Shostakovich is smaller than one might anticipate from a composer who was himself a gifted (albeit erratic) pianist, there is more to it than the monumental sequence of 24 preludes and fugues which he composed shortly after the Second World War for the pianist Tatiana Nikolaeva, and in emulation of The Well Tempered Clavier by Bach. Indeed some of the composer's earliest surviving music is a set of Eight Preludes,