Unable to view the video? See update below.
The unusual recital saw Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva (winner of the Chopin Piano Competition 2010) perform on a Hamburg Steinway from the Hotel Albrechtshof in Gohrisch (the very same location where Shostakovich composed his eighth string quartet in 1960), where she "joined," via the world wide web, the great piano virtuoso Daniil Trifonov, who performed on his Fazioli from the music room in his home in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The pair were also "joined" in Moscow by the 2015 winner of the city's quadrennial Tchaikovsky Competition, Dmitry Masleev, who performed live from the Russian capital's Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.
Together, the trio of musicians performed two known works by Shostakovich (the piano sonata no. 1, and the short piano piece "In the Forest"[1]) and premiered ten newly discovered short piano pieces by the composer which had been recently unearthed in the Shostakovich Archives in Moscow by Russian musicologist Olga Digonskaya.
The works premiered are by and large juvenilia pieces from Shostakovich's pre-teen and adolescent years, composed from as early as age 12 - some of which are eerily reminiscent of Chopin.
Whilst Trifonov's recording of the event is no longer available for free public viewing online, music lovers may still watch the performances of both Avdeeva and Masleev (seen above, and available via the links provided below).
The virtual recital replaced this year's International Shostakovich Days Festival at Gohrisch (just outside of Dresden, Germany) which had to regroup online due to restrictions resulting from the ongoing pandemic.
The program seen above, with timestamps: (* = world premiere)
Yulianna Avdeeva (from Gohrisch, Hotel Albrechtshof)
Piano Sonata No. 1 op. 12 (1:06)
Dmitry Masleev (from Moscow, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall)
Composed in 1934:
Drei Fugen (Three Fugues) o. op.* (15:16)
Piano pieces from the years 1918-1920:
Trauermarsch im Gedenken an die Opfer der Revolution (Funeral March in Memory of the Victims of the Revolution)* (21:46)
Nostalgie* (23:12)
Stück in C-Dur* (25:56)
Präludium-Marsch* (29:36)
Bagatelle* (32:02)
Drei Stücke: Menuett – Präludium – Intermezzo* (33:14)
Im Wald (In the Forest) (35:16)
Composed in 1921:
Scherzo op. 1a* (36:59)
Yulianna Avdeeva (from Gohrisch, Hotel Albrechtshof)
Präludium und Fuge cis-Moll* (from a sketch/draft of a Prelude in C Sharp Minor, believed to have been written for the cycle of Preludes and Fugues op 87. Prelude completed by / fugue composed by Krzysztof Meyer) (43:09)
For further information on this event, visit ARTE and Shostakovich Festival Gohrisch.
UPDATE - 7 August 2020: The above recital has now entered "country-blocked" status. If you are unable to view the video, you may still access Dmitry Masleev's performance on YouTube (seen below), with a minor order change, beginning with Im Wald (and omitting the Three Fugues and the Scherzo, which have been uploaded to separate videos: Click here for Drei Fugen and here for the Scherzo).
Timestamps:
00:00 In the forest (Im Wald)
01:43 Funeral March in the Memory of the Victims of the Revolution*
03:11 Nostalgia*
05:53 Piece in C-Major*
09:34 Prelude-March*
12:00 Bagatelle*
3 pieces (Drei Stücke)*
13:13 Minuet
13:55 Prelude
14:39 Intermezzo
Three Fugues (Drei Fugen) o. op.* (video link)
Scherzo op. 1a* (video link)
Yulianna's performance from the event (of the Piano Sonata no. 1 only) is likewise available on the platform. View it here.
Footnote:
[1]"Im Wald", performed by Masleev, received its premiere during last year's festival at Gohrisch (on 22 June 2019) by 2017 Arthur Rubinstein silver medalist Daniel Ciobanu. The short piano piece is yet another work from Shostakovich's youth, having been composed in 1919 at the age of 13.-Rose.
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