Name: Censored Anthems Crafted
Brand: Shostakovich / Weinberg / Oliverson
SKU: SK0110154-US20260105-083122
Availability: InStock

DISC: 1

1. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk~Adagio

2. Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra, Op. 42~Allegretto cantabile

3. Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra, Op. 42~Lento – Adagio

4. Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra, Op. 42~Allegro moderato poco rubato

5. Symphony for String Orchestra and Timpani~Andante patetico – Allegro moderato

6. Symphony for String Orchestra and Timpani~Allegro ma non troppo

7. Symphony for String Orchestra and Timpani~Adagio – Andante doloroso

8. Symphony for String Orchestra and Timpani~Allegro vivo

9. What does censorship sound like?, an exploration~Ian Niederhoffer on Shostakovich’s Adagio

10. What does censorship sound like?, an exploration~Ian Niederhoffer on Weinberg’s Concertino

11. What does censorship sound like?, an exploration~Ian Niederhoffer on Mirzoyan’s Symphony

More Info:

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 program 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 Mieczyslaw 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.