Oh..! YUJA WANG & SAN PETERSBURG Phil.O YURI TEMIRKANOV dir. SHOSTAKOVICH CONCERTO Op.35 LIVE au

WITH LIEBERMANN PROGRAM FOR BETTER COLOR AND SOUND..! <br />This concerto incorporates and parodies many other musical works. Shostakovich's extensive use of diverse musical quotations was groundbreaking at the time. In album notes, Robert Matthew-Walker writes, "With such a polyglot collection of quotations and influences, only a composer of genius could have moulded this variety into a cohesive whole. The miracle is that Shostakovich succeeded, and constructed a distinctive and indestructible work..."[2] He also notes that the concerto contains a strong element of parody, beginning with a reference to Beethoven's "Appassionata" Sonata, and ending with "an uproarious quotation" of Beethoven's "Rage Over a Lost Penny" and a slice of Haydn's D major Piano Sonata. The work also includes quotations from Shostakovich's own "Hamlet" incidental music Op. 32, and from a revue, "Conditionally Killed" Op. 31. <br />In the second movement Shostakovich presents a parody of a theme from his ballet The Golden Age (1935). In the final movement Shostakovich includes excerpts from his opera Christopher Columbus (1929) and Beethoven's Rondo a capriccio. <br />Shostakovich adds sarcasm with quotations of the Austrian folk song "Ach du lieber Augustin"—Augustin being a character who seems to survive any catastrophe, thanks to his propensity for alcohol. <br />The trumpet solo in the nine bars starting one bar after rehearsal mark 63 is identical to the melody of the folk tune "Poor Jenny". (Wikipedia)