Tag: Dmitri Shostakovich
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Russia – Romance and Drama
“Ahronovitch is direct and exciting and the title is well borne out by the performances. The recording is brilliant without being aggressively so, and has plenty of weight (with splendid brass sonorities in Night on the Bare Mountain) plus an effective ambience. The Sabre Dance has great energy and the Prokofiev March from Love for…
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Shostakovich: Symphony No.11 “The Year 1905”
“A superb performance with excellent sound makes this a benchmark recording and my top CD choice of the year. Shostakovich fans ignore this release at their peril !” (MusicWeb) “A searing new live account by Rostropovich, well-recorded and unmissable – (he) has something unique to say about this work, transcending any doubts about his conducting…
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Classic Valentine – Music for Love
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Shostakovich: Vocal Cycles for Bass, Vol.2
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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 “The First of May” – Rozhdestvensky
(Sym.1) “a good performance, with a strong feeling of chamber music to it and a remarkable attention to (occasionally exaggeration of) the quieter dynamic markings (Sym.3) “a much better recorded account of the Third Symphony, is brilliantly played and very vividly characterized . I was particularly struck by Rozhdestvensky’s use of solo instead of tutti…
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Sviatoslav Richter – The Early Years: Rise of a Virtuoso Legend
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Shostakovich: Violin Concertos 1 & 2 and Suite from ‘Alone’
“Similar feelings (soaring spontaneity and deeply perceptive intelligence) attend his readings of the Shostakovich concertos – added to which is my growing certainty that this version of No.I (accompanied by the great Mravinsky) is his finest. … It was with Mravinsky and the Leningrad that Oistrakh (as dedicatee) gave the first performance … Oistrakh plays…
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Shostakovich Sonatas Violin & Viola Op. 134 & 147
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Shostakovich & Myaskovsky: Cello Concertos
(Shostakovich) ‘outstanding ‘cellist, with a poetry of expression matching an infallible technique, very well recorded … under the composer’s supervision’ (Gramophone) (Myaskovsky) ‘overwhelming sense of nostalgia and an elegiac atmosphere … Rostropovich’s pioneering account is in a class of its own … could not be played with greater eloquence and restraint’ (Penguin Guide) ‘The soloist…
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Great Russian String Quartets
(Borodin) “movement-by-movement comparison makes it clear that …the Borodins win hands down … their internal balance at every point is irreproachable (Gramophone) (Glazunov): “reconciliation between the traditions of Borodin and Tchaikovsky … Shostakovich Quartet have great feeling for this music and play with real conviction” (Penguin Guide); (Tchaikovsky): “their earlier recordings (as here) are unassailable…
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Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87
“..the first choice must inevitably be Nikolayeva.. the “onlie begetter” as it were…Her reading has enormous concentration and a natural authority that is majestic … wisdom and humanity are there and she finds depths that have eluded most others” © Penguin Guide (ROSETTE AWARD). “Nikolayeva’s 1987 recording is better focussed … playful, profound, contemplative and…
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Shostakovich: The Great Symphonies
