Dmitri Shostakovich in Moscow - at the end of the 1960's

from Story of a Friendship. The letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman with a commentary by Isaak Glikman, page 158:

Oistrakh is already getting to grips with the sonata. He has been working with Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Richter and…myself as accompanists. I could manage the easy passages all right, but the difficult ones were awful.
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Dmitri Shostakovich / Isaac Glikman, Story of a Friendship. The letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman with a commentary by Isaak Glikman (Queen Square, London, 2001), p. 158. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1431432143835 accessed: 23 April, 2024

location of experience: Moscow

Listeners

Dmitri Shostakovich
Composer, Pianist
1906-1975

Listening to

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Violin Sonata
written by Dmitri Shostakovich
performed by David Oistrakh, Dmitri Shostakovich

Experience Information

Date/Time at the end of the 1960's
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others

Notes

Letter from Dmitri Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman, 2 January 1969, Moscow.


Originally submitted by verafonte on Tue, 12 May 2015 13:02:23 +0100
Approved on Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:26:21 +0000