Discover here a selection of concerts, archives and documentaries highlighting composers and performers who have lived under the Soviet system.
At the heart of a system that fixed courses of action and musical themes to the artists, geniuses have emerged within the art community. Some, like Shostakovich, spent their whole life under the Soviet system and composed some of the most beautiful scores of the XXth century. Shostakovich, for instance, a representative figure of the Russian musical production, was successively condemned, praised, denounced, honoured by the Party – he was honoured by receiving the title "People's Artist of the USSR" in 1947. We can here remind us of his Symphony No. 5 that served as a propagand tool of the Soviet Party, contrary to its Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District that was condemned by the Party's newspaper, The Pravda and then banned.
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New Year's Eve Concert 1990
2009 Nobel Prize Concert
Berliner Philharmoniker
Romantic Offering: world premiere – Luzerner Si...
A film by Reiner Moritz. De Nederlandse Opera
Treasures of the Masterclass Media Foundation
Treasures of the Masterclass Media Foundation
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater – T...
Archives from the 1960s
Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater — T...
Enhanced with exclusive, never-before-seen comm...
Recital at the Berliner Philharmonie
Orchestre national de l'ORTF, Louis de Froment
Some memories of a quiet magician. A film by Ch...
Some memories of a quiet magician. A film by Ch...
Enhanced with exclusive, never-before-seen comm...
Orchestre de chambre de la RTF, Pierre Capdevielle
Enhanced with exclusive, never-before-seen comm...
Enhanced with exclusive, never-before-seen comm...
Enhanced with exclusive, never-before-seen comm...
