DSCH JOURNAL

The new issue of the DSCH Journal – no. 64 – has now been distributed to subscribers. For those who do not yet have a paper copy, a limited number of additional copies remain available for purchase. Reserve yours while supplies last. Visit /subscribe-to-the-dsch-journal to place your order. In issue no. 64 you will find: WRITING ABOUT SHOSTAKOVICH - Shostakovich 1975-2025 - Trends in musicology – Pauline Fairclough - Shostakovich and Nikolai Martynov, Part 2/2 – Nikolai Martynov - Shostakovich's Viola Sonata: Unravelling a Legacy – Viacheslav Dinerchtein SPOTLIGHT - The Stalin motif in Shostakovich's 10th & 12th Symphony – Marian Trescher INTERVIEWS - Yulianna Avdeeva on Recording and Performing Shostakovich’s Preludes & Fugues, op. 87 - Ryan Bancroft on conducting Shostakovich - Shostakovich at Fifty Years: in Conversation with Evgeny Kissin CD REVIEWS - The Human Comedy, Three Fragments from 'The Nose,' The Shot. Soloists, Malmö Opera Orchestra & Chorus/Mark Fitz-Gerald - Symphony no. 13 Babi Yar. Vitalij Kowaljow, LSO and Chorus/Gianandrea Noseda - String Quartets, nos. 3 & 8, Krzysztof Meyer: String Quartet no. 16, op. 89, Au-delà d'une absence. Eliot Quartett - Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata no. 1. Shostakovich: Piano Sonata no 2, op. 61. Kabalevsky: Piano Sonata no. 3. Anastasia Yasko - 24 Preludes & Fugues, op. 87. Recordings by Yulianna Avdeeva and Sofia Sacco BOOK REVIEWS - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Pauline Fairclough NEWS - Obituary: Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin - The film “Two“ published in book form - New Schnittke Piano Cycle - Artist Alexander Traugott & Dmitri Shostakovich Visit /subscribe-to-the-dsch-journal to place your order. Cover: © 2025. By artist on Instagram | @uwhae_3 “In this piece, I aimed to depict the background lines as though they are surging forward—creating a sense of dynamic motion—while Shostakovich remains at the eye of the whirlwind. I wanted to convey his composure amidst the chaos.”

Dmitri Shostakovich with Alexander Sveshnikov (left) and Dmitry Kabalevsky (right). Hall of Columns at the House of Unions. 15 October 1973. Photographed by Viktor Akhlomov Credit: Exhibition "The Union of Composers in Viktor Akhlomov's photographs," «Союз композиторов в фотографиях Виктора Ахломова». Russian National Museum of Music/Olga Kabanova #Shostakovich #DmitriShostakovich #ДмитрийШостакович #Шостакович #DSCHJournal subscribe at dschjournal.com/subscribe-to-the-dsch-journal

Painting of Dmitri Shostakovich by Martiros Saryan. 1963. #Shostakovich #DmitriShostakovich #ДмитрийШостакович #Шостакович #DSCHJournal subscribe at dschjournal.com/subscribe-to-the-dsch-journal

Dmitri Shostakovich. 1962. Credit: Russian National Museum of Music #Shostakovich #DmitriShostakovich #ДмитрийШостакович #Шостакович #DSCHJournal subscribe at dschjournal.com/subscribe-to-the-dsch-journal

One hundred years ago today, Shostakovich's First Symphony was premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra; conducted by Nikolai Malko. The second movement was encored. Shostakovich would commemorate this date for the rest of his life. Credit: DSCH Publishers #Shostakovich #DmitriShostakovich #ДмитрийШостакович #Шостакович #DSCHJournal subscribe at dschjournal.com/subscribe-to-the-dsch-journal

Shostakovich getting into a taxi (Margarita Kainova in back seat), while in Paris. Late May 1958. Credit: Georges Menager #Shostakovich #DmitriShostakovich #ДмитрийШостакович #Шостакович #DSCHJournal subscribe at dschjournal.com/subscribe-to-the-dsch-journal

Shostakovich at the All-Union Society of Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS). 1944. Credit: DSCH Publishers #Shostakovich #DmitriShostakovich #ДмитрийШостакович #Шостакович #DSCHJournal

Shostakovich and wife Irina review the portrait by artist Tahir Salahov. 9 February 1974. Photographed by L. Ivanov #Shostakovich #DmitriShostakovich #ДмитрийШостакович #Шостакович #DSCHJournal #TahirSalahov subscribe at dschjournal.com/subscribe-to-the-dsch-journal

Portrait of Dmitri Shostakovich by Tahir Salahov. 9 February 1974. #Shostakovich #DmitriShostakovich #ДмитрийШостакович #Шостакович #DSCHJournal #TahirSalahov subscribe at dschjournal.com/subscribe-to-the-dsch-journal

Zoya, Mitya, and Maria in Irinovka, near Lake Ladoga. Summer 1912. Credit: DSCH Publishers #Shostakovich #DmitriShostakovich #ДмитрийШостакович #Шостакович #DSCHJournal subscribe at dschjournal.com/subscribe-to-the-dsch-journal

Sofia Vassilyevna Shostakovich with her children, Dmitri, Zoya, and Maria, in Irinovka. Summer 1911. Credit: DSCH Publishers #Shostakovich #DmitriShostakovich #ДмитрийШостакович #Шостакович #DSCHJournal subscribe at dschjournal.com/subscribe-to-the-dsch-journal

Dmitri Shostakovich with Olga Bergholz, Galina Vishnevskaya, and others after the premiere of the Thirteenth Symphony. Moscow. 18 December 1962. Photographed by Viktor Akhlomov Credit: Exhibition "The Union of Composers in Viktor Akhlomov's photographs" «Союз композиторов в фотографиях Виктора Ахломова». Russian National Museum of Music/Olga Kabanova #Shostakovich #DmitriShostakovich #ДмитрийШостакович #Шостакович #DSCHJournal subscribe at dschjournal.com/subscribe-to-the-dsch-journal