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    Lawrence Power, Simon Crawford-Phillips - Dmitri Shostakovich: Music For Viola and Piano (2012)

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    Lawrence Power, Simon Crawford-Phillips - Dmitri Shostakovich: Music For Viola and Piano (2012)

    Dmitri Shostakovich: Music For Viola and Piano (2012)
    Lawrence Power (Viola), Simon Crawford-Phillips (Piano)

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    Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67865 | Time: 00:57:02

    Lawrence Power makes the second of his appearances in this month’s release lists, this time with his regular pianist partner Simon Crawford-Phillips in the chamber music of Shostakovich. The centrepiece is the Viola Sonata, Shostakovich’s last completed work, premiered posthumously, on what would have been the composer’s sixty-ninth birthday. Its ravishing slow finale reworks the opening of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata—a tribute to a composer he revered. Shostakovich the film composer also takes a bow, in the form of The Gadfly, with its famous ‘Romance’ beloved of violinists everywhere. That this works just as compellingly on the viola is triumphantly displayed in the arrangement made by Vadim Borisovsky (founding violist of the Beethoven Quartet), one of the Five Pieces he recast from Shostakovich’s original. Shostakovich’s 24 Piano Preludes have also proved irresistible to transcribers and here we have the seven brilliantly reworked by a pupil of Borisovsky, Yevgeny Strakhov.

    Shostakovich’s Viola Sonata was his last work, written in the final two months of his life. It did not receive its first performance until seven weeks after the composer’s death. Its significance lies not only in that bleak fact; it is also one of the most important works for viola and piano in the canon. The first movement was described by the composer as a ‘novella’, and one wonders indeed if he had a specific book or programme in mind, such is the narrative strength of the music. Power’s performance has some beautifully subtle shadings, as well as a vast range of dynamic, from a full romantic cantilena down to the most delicate pizzicato and an absolutely spine-chilling whisper of sound in tremolo on the bridge.

    The second movement opens with a reworking of comparatively lightweight material from Shostakovich’s unfinished opera on Gogol’s The Gamblers, but soon develops a more disturbing undertow as he moves into newly composed material. The opera was left unfinished shortly before Shostakovich was attacked by the Soviet establishment during the Zhdanov purge, and one wonders whether his quotation of this music and the way he subsequently undermines it might have autobiographical significance. Certainly there is no doubt about such significance in the finale, where Shostakovich interweaves quotations from all fifteen of his symphonies (and other works) into an extensive free fantasia built around a paraphrase of the opening of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. As always in late Shostakovich – one thinks of the Fifteenth Symphony, for example – the composer’s quotations from other composers have point; in the symphony William Tell represents freedom, and the use of the ‘fate’ motif from Wagner’s Ring is self-explanatory; but the significance of the Beethoven is not so easy to read, especially since it extends its far-reaching tentacles in one way or another throughout the movement. David Fanning in his booklet note suggests that Shostakovich was aware that his death from lung cancer was imminent, and that he knew this sonata would be his last work. If so, he remained enigmatic to the very end. The performance from Power is matched by a stupendous rendition of the piano part by Crawford-Phillips, who matches his partner’s huge dynamic span with playing that ranges from a massive roar of protest to a barely audible whisper. This is a superb recording of a very important piece.

    Shostakovich wrote no other works specifically for the combination of viola and piano, but both the sets of arrangements that make up the remainder of this disc were made during his lifetime and presumably with his consent and blessing. One cannot however say that Strakhov’s arrangements of seven of the piano Preludes add very much to the original. In some places there is a feeling that he is trying desperately and not always successfully to find something worthwhile for the viola to add. He gives titles to each of the movements (which Shostakovich did not) and this hints at the fact that Strakhov may have felt the need to justify his arrangement – although Shostakovich also approved versions of the Preludes for violin and piano.

    On the other hand, Borisovsky’s arrangement of five pieces from The Gadfly are an absolutely stunning piece of work. The famous Romance works splendidly; but the whole selection shows a real rethinking of the film score in terms of viola and piano, and the opening Scene has a grand romantic sweep that totally transcends the cinematographic origins of the music. The Barrel-organ waltz brings a stunning use of viola harmonics which must be absolutely fiendish to play, but which Power makes sound not only natural and easy but also funny. The concluding Folk festival is yet another Shostakovich lollipop on the same level at the Romance – which, by the way, Power and Crawford-Phillips make sound new-minted.

    This disc is absolutely essential for the Viola Sonata but the Gadfly pieces make a superb additional cause for heartfelt recommendation. The recorded sound is truthful and present, with just the right halo of resonance around the players who are superbly balanced with each other. The cover illustration, as so often with Hyperion, is superbly chosen and suitably atmospheric.

    Review by Paul Corfield Godfrey, MusicWeb International

    The promised music for viola and piano on this British release is achieved only through the use of transcriptions; the only work originally for viola is the Sonata for viola and piano, Op. 147. And that work is indubitably the centerpiece of the program. The sonata was composed in the summer of 1975 and completed just days before the composer's death from the accreted effects of lung cancer, heart disease, and polio. It is one of the grimmest works in his or anybody else's canon, with a massive slow finale that quotes from Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata and each of Shostakovich's own 15 symphonies. Even the central Allegretto is deathlike. It is not easy to maintain a sense of momentum in the extremely long lines of this work, but violist Lawrence Power and pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips manage to do so with a measured, careful performance; this is one case with Shostakovich where less is more. The work is framed by a pair of lighter pieces: viola-and-piano arrangements of seven of Shostakovich's Preludes for piano, Op. 34, which make a nice, slighly more somber counterpoint to the better-known violin-and-piano arrangements, and arrangements of five cuts from The Gadfly, Op. 97, a film score of the mid-'50s, during the period of his seeming total submission to Soviet cultural authority, that's as tonal as anything he ever wrote. With the fine recording of the viola sonata, this is a recording that will find a place on good Shostakovich shelves (or hard drives).

    Review by James Manheim, Allmusic.com

    Lawrence Power, Simon Crawford-Phillips - Dmitri Shostakovich: Music For Viola and Piano (2012)



    Lawrence Power, Simon Crawford-Phillips - Dmitri Shostakovich: Music For Viola and Piano (2012)



    Lawrence Power, Simon Crawford-Phillips - Dmitri Shostakovich: Music For Viola and Piano (2012)



    Lawrence Power (Viola), Simon Crawford-Phillips (Piano)
    Recording details: October 2010
    Concert Hall, Wyastone Estate, Monmouth, United Kingdom

    Tracklist:

    7 Preludes from 24 Preludes, Op.34
    01. 1. Un peu triste (No.10) (1:40)
    02. 2. Marche funebre (No.14) (1:58)
    03. 3. Une valse vite (No.15) (0:50)
    04. 4. Une valse militaire (No.16) (1:10)
    05. 5. Melodie amoureuse (No.17) (1:53)
    06. 6. Une danse ironique (No.18) (0:48)
    07. 7. Finale (No.24) (1:26)

    Sonata for viola & piano, Op.147
    08. 1. Moderato (9:31)
    09. 2. Allegretto (7:16)
    10. 3. Adagio (13:16)

    5 Pieces from 'The Gadfly', Op.97
    11. 1. Scene: Moderato (2:24)
    12. 2. Intermezzo: Andante (5:22)
    13. 3. Sharmanka (Barrel-Organ Waltz) (2:03)
    14. 4. Romance (4:42)
    15. 5. Folk Festival (2:43)


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