Parlando, Ian Niederhoffer – Censored Anthems (2025) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Parlando, Ian Niederhoffer – Censored Anthems (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:24 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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A Musical America New Artist and BBC Rising Star, Ian Niederhoffer is a fast-rising, young conductor. Here, together with his orchestra Parlando, he explores music as a tool of cultural resilience in the face of censorship, particularly within the Soviet Union. This eclectic program includes Shostakovich’s Adagio from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a work infamously censored after Stalin’s disapproval, the Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra by Mieczysław Weinberg, a composer whose career was shaped by persecution during Stalin’s anti-cosmopolitan campaign, and Edvard Mirzoyan’s Symphony for String Orchestra and Timpani, which is a powerful testament to Armenian cultural survival despite Soviet Russification. Inspired by Parlando’s mission that “every concert tells a story”, the album ends with three narrated tracks detailing Soviet censorship.

Tracklist:

01. Parlando & Ian Niederhoffer – Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Adagio (Arr. for String Orchestra by Ian Niederhoffer) (05:21)
02. Parlando & Ian Niederhoffer – Weinberg: Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra, Op. 42: I. Allegretto cantabile (06:22)
03. Parlando & Ian Niederhoffer – Weinberg: Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra, Op. 42: II. Lento; Adagio (06:13)
04. Parlando & Ian Niederhoffer – Weinberg: Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra, Op. 42: III. Allegro moderato poco rubato (04:56)
05. Parlando & Ian Niederhoffer – Mirzoyan: Symphony for String Orchestra and Timpani: I. Andante patetico – Allegro moderato (11:52)
06. Parlando & Ian Niederhoffer – Mirzoyan: Symphony for String Orchestra and Timpani: II. Allegro ma non troppo (06:42)
07. Parlando & Ian Niederhoffer – Mirzoyan: Symphony for String Orchestra and Timpani: III. Adagio – Andante doloroso (08:14)
08. Parlando & Ian Niederhoffer – Mirzoyan: Symphony for String Orchestra and Timpani: IV. Allegro vivo (07:27)
09. Parlando & Ian Niederhoffer – Anonymous: What Does Censorship Sound Like? An Exploration: I. Ian Niederhoffer on Shostakovich’s Adagio (04:17)
10. Parlando & Ian Niederhoffer – Anonymous: What Does Censorship Sound Like? An Exploration: II. Ian Niederhoffer on Weinberg’s Concertino (04:42)
11. Parlando & Ian Niederhoffer – Anonymous: What Does Censorship Sound Like? An Exploration: III. Ian Niederhoffer on Mirzoyan’s Symphony (08:15)

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