The work carried out in recent decades by organizations such as the Palazzetto Bru Zane has demonstrated that the exhumation of unpublished opuses is not limited to those of composers of the Baroque era.
But the rediscovery of a work by a major composer who died less than half a century ago remains extremely rare.
And a significant artistic contribution.
This is the case with the astonishing transcription of the
Fourteenth Symphony
by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, which Nicolas Stavy recreated in concert last November at the Philharmonie de Paris, and which he has just published on disc.
Admittedly, the notion of transcription, even by the hand of the composer, does not necessarily refer to the idea of an authentic forgotten masterpiece.
There are many reductions of symphonic works which are of only anecdotal or purely musicological interest.
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In this specific case, it is not.
On the contrary,
"the close study of the manuscript of this version shows how much thought Shostakovich...
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