To mark the 50th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich's death, Deutsche Grammophon is releasing world premiere recordings and rarities by the great Russian composer - most of them recorded at the International Shostakovich Festival in Gohrisch, Saxony, the world's only annual Shostakovich festival. 

Always walking the fine line of not displeasing the Soviet regime, Shostakovich rewrote many of his works at the time or did not publish them at all. It was only after his death and the end of the Soviet Union that they were found and reconstructed. Some of these controversial compositions can now be heard on “Shostakovich Discoveries”, including the satire “Antiformalist Rayok”, unpublished fragments of his opera “The Nose” and piano miniatures. 

Tracklist:

1. Anti-Formalist Rayok
2. Impromptu for Viola and Piano – Live
3. Scherzo for Piano, Op. 1a

Three Fugues for Piano 
4. No. 1 
5. No. 2 
6. No. 3 

Three Fragments from the Opera "The Nose" - Live
7. Entr'acte: In Front of Kazan Cathedral 
8. Beginning of Act III 
9. Entr'acte No. 10a 
Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano (Arr. Atovmyan) – Live
10. No. 1, Prelude 
11. No. 2, Gavotte 
12. No. 3, Elegy
13. No. 4, Waltz
14. No. 5, Polkan
15. In the Forest – Live

Prelude & Fugue in C-Sharp Minor (Compl. Meyer)
16. I. Prelude
17. II. Fugue
18. Murzilka – Live
19. Yelabuga Nail (Compl. Raskatov)