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VAAP
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This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
/ Sikorski for the UK, British Commonwealth (excluding Canada), Republic of Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Israel.
Availability
World Premiere
12/12/1926
Leningrad Philharmonic Malyi Hall, Leningrad
Dmitri Shostakovich, piano
Repertoire Note
The First Piano Sonata is one of the toughest and most abrasive of Shostakovich’s early works, full of out-and-out modernism, dissonance and virtuosity, and powered by the confidence that followed his completion of his First Symphony op.10. Although cast in a single movement, it follows the outlines of a three-movement structure (fast – slow - fast), while avoiding anything that might be thought superficially appropriate to a sonata. This is the music of a young rebel.
Note by Gerard McBurney
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