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Censored Anthems: Shostakovich, Weinberg, Mirzoyan | Delos DE3610

Censored Anthems: Shostakovich, Weinberg, Mirzoyan

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Label: Delos

Cat No: DE3610

Barcode: 0013491361024

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 28th February 2025

Contents

Artists

Aubree Oliverson (violin)
Joel Lambdin (violin)
Andrew Beall (timpani)
Ian Niederhoffer (narrator)
Arya Balian (soprano)
Parlando

Conductor

Ian Niederhoffer

Works

Mirzoyan, Edvard

Symphony for string orchestra and timpani

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
» Adagio (arr. for string orchestra)

Weinberg, Mieczyslaw

Concertino for violin and string orchestra, op.42

Artists

Aubree Oliverson (violin)
Joel Lambdin (violin)
Andrew Beall (timpani)
Ian Niederhoffer (narrator)
Arya Balian (soprano)
Parlando

Conductor

Ian Niederhoffer

About

A Musical America New Artist and BBC Rising Star, Ian Niederhoffer is a fast-rising, young conductor. Here, together with his orchestra Parlando, he explores music as a tool of cultural resilience in the face of censorship, particularly within the Soviet Union. This eclectic programme includes Shostakovich’s Adagio from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a work infamously censored after Stalin’s disapproval, the Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra by Mieczysław Weinberg, a composer whose career was shaped by persecution during Stalin’s anti-cosmopolitan campaign, and Edvard Mirzoyan’s Symphony for String Orchestra and Timpani, which is a powerful testament to Armenian cultural survival despite Soviet Russification. Inspired by Parlando’s mission that “every concert tells a story”, the album ends with three narrated tracks detailing Soviet censorship.

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