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Maxim Dmitriyevich Shostakovich ( Russian: Макси́м Дми́триевич Шостако́вич; born 10 May 1938 in Leningrad) is a Soviet, Russian and American conductor and pianist. He is the second child of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich and Nina Varzar. He is a recipient of an honorary title Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1978).
Maxim Shostakovich shares his memories of his famous father, the composer Dmitri, and his musical career in Russia and the US. He talks about his father's music, his own conducting, and his views on today's Russia.
Feb 25, 2015 · Maxim Shostakovich: Why I returned to Russia. The composer’s son fled the Soviet Union in 1981, in what he describes as the ‘era of stagnation’. He has told Russian interviewer that he ...
Maxim Shostakovich — “I feel my father looking over my shoulder”. The conductor son of the great Russian composer explains why he has devoted his life to his father’s musical legacy ...
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Maxim Shostakovich has conducted the major orchestras throughout the whole world, in America he has for instance worked with: the New York Philharmonic, Washington National Symphony, the Orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary, San Diego, Dallas, Houston and others.
Maxim Shostakovich’s passionate devotion to his father’s music shines through this cycle, the culmination of a fruitful partnership with the Prague Symphony Orchestra that began in the mid-1990s with an auspicious live recording of the 13th Symphony and concluded with Nos 12 and 15 in March of this year.
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ClassicsToday. Shostakovich’s two cello concertos are works of unusual concentration and irony. The second, in particular, includes near the end of the final, largely peaceful Allegretto. Continue Reading.
