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Lera Auerbach’s four-movement Third Sonata alternates between slow and fast sections. The slow music evokes late Shostakovich, but with more pronounced register extremes and plenty
Lera Auerbach’s music has been compared to that of Shostakovich, and with good reason. She remains committed to a fresh use of tonality, without denying
Lera Auerbach’s music is direct, immediate in impact, volatile in mood, and never at a loss for big gestures. As I indicated in my review
The angst, the tortured emotion, the relentless grinding dissonance, and dare I say it, the noise! Shostakovich’s violin sonata has to be one of the
Born in Chelyabinsk in 1973, Lera Auerbach defected from the former Soviet Union to the United States while still in her teens, and she has
