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London, Royal Festival Hall: Shostakovich: Prologue to ‘Orango’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2013

Martin Anderson
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The music of Shostakovich's abandoned opera Orango wasn't itself such a surprise: the première, given in Los Angeles in December 2011, was recorded live and released soon after on a Deutsche Grammophon CD (0289 479 0249 2). But experiencing it in the flesh – at its European première in the Royal Festival Hall on 16 May – revealed the music all over again and left at least this listener slack-jawed in astonishment at the profligacy of Shostakovich's genius.

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First Performances
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Tempo , Volume 67 , Issue 266 , October 2013 , pp. 83 - 84
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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References

1 Gerard McBurney wrote about Orango in Tempo Vol. 64 No. 254 (2010), pp. 38–40.CrossRefGoogle Scholar