Series PORTRAIT. Dmitri Shostakovich

MARI TARGO violin, VALERIA RJUMINA violin, MAIRIT MITT alto violin, THEODOR SINK cello

HOLGER MARJAMAA  piano

Commentaries TIIA JÄRG

Quartet No. 8

Sonata for cello

An excerpt from the film „The Fall of Berlin“ (A Stalinist cult movie of the key events of the Great Patriotic War. After Stalin’s death…)

A concert series featuring both a performer and a musicologist. They perform the composer’s works and present its background. The programme is not just a selection of the composer’s works, but attempts to showcase the various facets of his nature as an author.

Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive