moynaham brian leningrad siege and symphony
Moynaham Brian Leningrad: Siege and Symphony
Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was first played in the city of its birth on 9 August, 1942. There has never been a first performance to match it. Pray God, there never will be again. Almost a year earlier, the Germans had begun their blockade of the city. Already many thousands had died of their wounds, the cold, and most of all, starvation. The assembled musicians - scrounged from frontline units and military bands, for only twenty of the orchestra's 100 players had survived - were so hungry, many feared they'd be too weak to play the score right through. In these, the darkest days of the Second World War, the music and the defiance it inspired provided a rare beacon of light for the watching world. Setting the composition of Shostakovich's most famous work against the tragic canvas of the siege itself and the years of repression and terror that preceded it, Leningrad: Siege and Symphony is a magisterial and moving account of one of the most tragic periods in history.
2478 Руб.
Jones Michael Leningrad: State of Siege
In 1941 Hitler's armies blocked the last roads leading into Leningrad. What followed was one of the most horrific sieges in history. When the German High Command encircled Leningrad it was a deliberate policy to eradicate the city's civilian population by starving them to death. As winter set in and food supplies dwindled, starvation and panic set in. A specialist in battle psychology and the vital role of morale in desperate circumstances, Michael Jones tells the human story of Leningrad. Drawing on newly available eyewitness accounts and diaries, he shows Leningrad in its every dimension including taboo truths, long-suppressed by the Soviets, such as looting, criminal gangs and cannibalism. But, for many ordinary citizens, Leningrad marked the triumph of the human spirit. They drew deeply on their inner resources to inspire, comfort and help one another. At the height of the siege an extraordinary live performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony profoundly strengthened the city's will to resist. When German troops heard it in their trenches one remarked: 'We began to understand we would never take Leningrad. Yet, Leningrad's self-defence came at a huge price. When the 900-day siege ended in 1944 almost a million people had died and those who survived would be permanently marked by what they had endured, as this superbly insightful and moving history shows.
1356 Руб.
AUDIO CD Шостакович - Симфония № 7 Ленинград - Марис Янсонс. 1 CD
Симфония № 7 «Ленинградская» - одно из произведений, которое сделало композитора Дмитрия Шостаковича «бессмертным».Глубоко патриотичное произведение, зовущее на борьбу с любыми формами угнетения и несправедливости, имеет актуальность и сегодня.Марис Янсонс и Ленинградский симфонический оркестр доказывают это со всей глубиной и проникновенностью.Диск хорошо оформлен и пользуется значительным спросом.Запись осуществлена фирмой EMI Records (Англия) в кооперации с «Международной книгой» в 1988 г.Список музыкальных треков:Symphony No. 7 In С, Op. 60 "Leningrad": AllegrettoSymphony No. 7 In С, Op. 60 "Leningrad": Moderato (Poco Allegretto)Symphony No. 7 In С, Op. 60 "Leningrad": AdagioSymphony No. 7 In С, Op. 60 "Leningrad": Allegro Non Troppo.
452 Руб.
Франко Маннино В Ленинграде Виниловая пластинка Франко Маннино В Ленинграде Маннино Франко
Состояние носителя: NM. Состояние конверта: NM. Маннино Франко. Виниловая пластинка . Conductor – Franco Mannino A1 Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka– Overture To "Ruslan And Ludmila" 4:42 A2 César Franck– Variations Symphoniques For Piano And Orchestra In F Sharp Minor 15:46 B Franco Mannino– Symphony No. 4 Op. 225 "Leningrad" 25:38 Тип носителя: Виниловая пластинка
1170 Руб.
Винил 12 (LP) Дмитрий Шостакович | Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60 Leningrad (2LP)
Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60 Leningrad
4520 Руб.
Ginzburg Lydia Notes From the Blockade
The 900-day siege of Leningrad (1941-44) was one of the turning points of the Second World War. It slowed down the German advance into Russia and became a national symbol of survival and resistance. An estimated one million civilians died, most of them from cold and starvation. Lydia Ginzburg, a respected literary scholar (who meanwhile wrote prose 'for the desk drawer' through seven decades of Soviet rule), survived. Using her own using notes and sketches she wrote during the siege, along with conversations and impressions collected over the years, she distilled the collective experience of life under siege. Through painful depiction of the harrowing conditions of that period, Ginzburg created a paean to the dignity, vitality and resilience of the human spirit. This original translation by Alan Myers has been revised and annotated by Emily van Buskirk. This edition includes 'A Story of Pity and Cruelty', a recently discovered documentary narrative translated into English for the first time by Angela Livingstone.
1611 Руб.
Makine Andrei The Life of an Unknown Man
One night in St Petersburg, two men meet, both adrift in the brash new Russia: Shutov, a writer visiting after years of exile in Paris, and Volsky, an elderly survivor of the Siege of Leningrad and Stalin's purges. His life story - one of extreme suffering, courage and an extraordinary love - he considers unremarkable. To Shutov it is a revelation, the tale of an unsung hero that puts everything into perspective and suggests where true happiness lies.
2017 Руб.
Benioff David City of Thieves
Four months into the siege of Leningrad, the city is starving. Seventeen-year-old Lev fears for his life when he is arrested for looting the body of a dead German paratrooper, while his charismatic cellmate Kolya, a handsome young soldier arrested for desertion, seems bizarrely unafraid. Dawn brings, instead of the execution squad, an impossible challenge. Lev and Kolya can find a dozen eggs for an NKVD colonel to use for his daughter's wedding cake, and live. Or fail, and die. In the depths of the coldest winter in history, through a city cut off from all supplies and suffering appalling deprivation, man and boy embark on an absurd hunt. Their search will take them through desolate, lawless Leningrad and the devastated countryside surrounding it, in the captivating journey of two men trying to survive against desperate odds.
2052 Руб.
Dunmore Helen The Siege
Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers - Anna and Andrei, Anna's novelist father and banned actress Marina - the siege becomes a battle for survival. They will soon discover what it is like to be so hungry you boil shoe leather to make soup, so cold you burn furniture and books. But this is not just a struggle to exist, it is also a fight to keep the spark of hope alive... A brilliantly imagined novel of war and the wounds it inflicts on ordinary people's lives, and a profoundly moving celebration of love, life and survival.
3169 Руб.
Barrow Randi Finding Zasha
In 1941, the Germans began the long, bloody siege on Leningrad. During the chaos, twelve-year-old Ivan is sent to live with relatives when his mother's job is moved to the mountains. But it is a long and dangerous journey to get out of Leningrad. After settling into a new town it falls under Nazi occupation and Ivan is picked by Axel Recht, an especially heinous soldier, to come work for the Nazis. One of Ivan's more pleasant tasks is to train Alex's dogs. Yet Ivan is determined to use his position to undermine the Nazis and rescue the dogs. But Ivan underestimates Axel's attachment to Zasha and Thor, and soon finds himself being hunted by a ruthless soldier who will stop at nothing to get his dogs back. As World War II rages around them, Ivan must find a way to hide from Axel, protect Zasha and Thor, avoid the constant barrage of deadly bombings, and survive in the devastating conditions of a city cut off from the world.
1777 Руб.
Audio CD Dmitri Schostakowitsch (1906-1975) - Symphonie Nr.7 Leningrad (1 CD)
Треклист:Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad", 1 I. Allegretto 28:45, 2 II. Moderato (Poco Allegretto) 15:30, 3 III. Adagio 19:03, 4 IV. Allegro Non Troppo 19:03
4249 Руб.
Sidewalks of Paris (Chemiakin) (супер)
Over several years Mihail Chemiakin photographed discarded paper, dead leaves, cigarette butts, spots of paint, cracks, traces of dog urine, plantain tree bark, and spots on the wall in nocturnal Paris, then drew with pastel and ink on matte prints of the photographs, creating a tremendous range of imagery. Thus arose a new technique in drawing and a new view of the astounding riches hidden in the humble, ignored world under our feet. This catalogue of the first exhibition of this work, at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, includes 210 works on various themes --Theater, Petersburg, The Civil War, The Siege of Leningrad, Dances of Death, among others.
5249 Руб.
Dunmore Helen The Betrayal
Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a young hospital doctor and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together in the post-war, post-siege wreckage. But their happiness is precarious, like that of millions of Russians who must avoid the claws of Stalin's merciless Ministry for State security. So when Andrei is asked to treat the seriously ill child of a senior secret police officer, he and Anna are fearful. Trapped in an impossible, maybe unwinnable game, can they avoid the whispers and watchful eyes of those who will say or do anything to save themselves? The Betrayal is a powerful and touching novel of ordinary people in the grip of a terrible and sinister regime, and a moving portrait of a love that will not be extinguished.
2177 Руб.
Chemiakin M. Sidewalks of Paris
Over several years Mihail Chemiakin photographed discarded paper, dead leaves, cigarette butts, spots of paint, cracks, traces of dog urine, plantain tree bark, and spots on the wall in nocturnal Paris, then drew with pastel and ink on matte prints of the photographs, creating a tremendous range of imagery. Thus arose a new technique in drawing and a new view of the astounding riches hidden in the humble, ignored world under our feet. This catalogue of the first exhibition of this work, at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, includes 210 works on various themes --Theater, Petersburg, The Civil War, The Siege of Leningrad, Dances of Death, among others.
5249 Руб.
Chemiakin M. Sidewalks of Paris
Over several years Mihail Chemiakin photographed discarded paper, dead leaves, cigarette butts, spots of paint, cracks, traces of dog urine, plantain tree bark, and spots on the wall in nocturnal Paris, then drew with pastel and ink on matte prints of the photographs, creating a tremendous range of imagery. Thus arose a new technique in drawing and a new view of the astounding riches hidden in the humble, ignored world under our feet. This catalogue of the first exhibition of this work, at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, includes 210 works on various themes --Theater, Petersburg, The Civil War, The Siege of Leningrad, Dances of Death, among others.
5249 Руб.
Lurie Alison The War Between the Tates
Brian and Erica Tate appear to have every advantage in life: academic careers, two children, nice friends and money. But when Brian begins an affair with one of his students the disintegration of their lives is swift and shocking. Things spiral when a protest against a sexist professor at the university ramps up and Brian, hopelessly compromised by split loyalties, gets caught up in the action. Can the Tates marriage survive? Lurie skewers both sides in this brilliant campus satire of 1960s feminism, parenthood, infidelity and academic pomposity.
2605 Руб.