Dmitri Shostakovich

Variations on a Theme by Glinka

1957

This is a collaborative composition comprising eleven variations on an aria from Mikhail Glinka’s opera A Life for the Tsar, also known during the Soviet era as Ivan Susanin. The composers who contributed to the set were Shostakovich (variations 8, 9 and 11), Eugen Kapp (variation 1), Vissarion Shebalin (variations 2 and 3), Andrei Eshpai (variation 4), Rodion Shchedrin (variation 5), Georgy Sviridov (variation 6), Yuri Levitin (variation 7) and Dmitri Kabalevsky (variation 10).

Recommended editions

New Collected Works (DSCH Publishers) · Volume 109 · ed. Victor Ekimovsky

Duration: 15'

Difficulty: 4