Книга: Moynaham Brian «Leningrad: Siege and Symphony»
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Производитель: "Quercus/MacLehose Press" Shostakovich`s Seventh Symphony was first played in the city of its birth on 9 August, 1942. There has never been a first performance to match it. Pray God, there never will be again. Almost a year earlier, the Germans had begun their blockade of the city. Already many thousands had died of their wounds, the cold, and most of all, starvation. The assembled musicians - scrounged from frontline units and military bands, for only twenty of the orchestra`s 100 players had survived - were so hungry, many feared they`d be too weak to play the score right through. In these, the darkest days of the Second World War, the music and the defiance it inspired provided a rare beacon of light for the watching world. Setting the composition of Shostakovich`s most famous work against the tragic canvas of the siege itself and the years of repression and terror that preceded it, Leningrad: Siege and Symphony is a magisterial and moving account of one of the most tragic periods in history. Издательство: "Quercus/MacLehose Press" (2014)
ISBN: 978-0-85738-302-0 |
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