Dmitri Shostakovich in Moscow - July, 1969

from Story of a Friendship. The letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman with a commentary by Isaak Glikman, page 166:

While we were in Dilizhan the composer Avset Terterian acquainted me with some of his compositions. He seems very talented to me. Apart from these pieces, I heard no other works new to me, although I did hear a gramophone record of Edgar Oganesian’s Saxophone Concerto and also Aleksandr Glazunov’s Saxophone Concerto. I liked the Oganesian; Glazunov’s concerto was so bad it made me want to cry.
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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. 166. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1431456867800 accessed: 1 December, 2024

location of experience: Moscow

Listeners

Dmitri Shostakovich
Composer, Pianist
1906-1975

Listening to

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Aleksandr Glazunov’s Saxophone Concerto
written by Aleksandr Glazunov
Avset Terterian's works
written by Avset Terterian
Edgar Oganesian’s Saxophone Concerto
written by Edgar Oganesian

Experience Information

Date/Time July, 1969
Medium live, playback

Notes

Letter from Dmitri Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman, 22 July 1969, Moscow.


Originally submitted by verafonte on Tue, 12 May 2015 19:54:28 +0100
Approved on Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:28:32 +0000