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Sayaka Shoji, violin
Ural Philharmonic Orchestra
Dmitri Liss, conductor
The two violin concertos occupy a major place, both musical and human, in Shostakovich's output, and document particularly painful moments in his existence: the condemnation of his music in 1948 and the subsequent wilderness years in the Concerto n°1, Op.77, and his incessant health problems after 1963 in n°2, Op.129, which marks his first dodecaphonic experiments. These immense masterpieces are characterised by their sombre emotional hues, the sarcastic outbursts of the fast movements, and the fiendish difficulties of the cadenzas.