Dmitri Shostakovich - in the middle of the 1900's
from Story of a Friendship. The letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman with a commentary by Isaak Glikman, pages 148-149:
I have heard Yureneva sing on the radio several times. I have also heard her in chamber music concerts, and I really liked her singing. I have sent her my Blok settings and asked her to consider singing them. / I am a bit worried about her partners, however. I would be absolutely happy with, for instance, Mikhail Vaiman or Boris Gutnikov as violinists, but I don’t know about the cellist. Is there an outstanding cellist in Leningrad anything like Rostropovich? You move in musical circles; please let me know. Nadezhda Yureneva’s agreement, and only then put the ensemble together. Yureneva … more >>
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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. 148-149. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1431429729220 accessed: 15 October, 2024
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Letter from Dmitri Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman, 29 November 1967, Moscow
Originally submitted by verafonte on Tue, 12 May 2015 12:22:09 +0100
Approved on Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:13:36 +0000