TTC - Great Masters - Shostakovich torrent

Category: Lecture
Language: English
Keywords: Music Robert Greenberg Shostakovich ttc
Written by Robert Greenberg
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

Discover the extraordinary life, times, and art of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), great musical master and flawed but faithful witness to the survival of the human spirit under totalitarianism.

He is without a doubt one of the absolutely central composers of the 20th century. His symphonies and string quartets are mainstays of the repertoire.

But Shostakovich is also a figure whose story raises challenging and exciting issues that go far beyond music: They touch on questions of conscience, of the moral role of the artist, of the plight of humanity in the face of total war and mass oppression, and of the inner life of history’s bloodiest century.

8 Lectures
45 minutes / lecture

1 Let the Controversy Begin
2 The Kid’s Got Talent!
3 Lady Macbeth
4 Resurrection
5 The Great Patriotic War
6 Repression and Depression
7 The Thaw
8 Illness and Inspiration