Par CHOSTAKOVITCH DIMITRI. Shostakovich's 24 Preludes And Fugues from Opus 87. This is the second volume which contains numbers 13-24 of the Preludes And Fugues./ Répertoire / Piano

Par CHOSTAKOVITCH DIMITRI. Just back from a trip to Leipzig in the early autumn of 1950 where he heard Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier at the Bicentennial Bach Competition played by the Russian pianist Tatiana Nikolaeva, Shostakovich began his own series of 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, based on Bach's model. He composed them quickly, starting on October 10, 1950, and finishing on February 23, 1951…