Tag: USSR State Symphony Orchestra
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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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BALAKIREV: Symphony 1; Symphonic Poems: “Tamara”, “Russia”
“These performances have passion and urgency … a natural feeling for idiomatic phrasing and rhythm … rarely if ever on disc has there been such a radiant account on disc of the lovely slow movement” (Penguin Guide) “….his masterpiece Tamara: this is a very good Tamara and every bit as colourful and mysterious” (Gramophone)
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Shostakovich: The Great Symphonies
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Sviatoslav Richter in the 1950s, Vol. 2
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Sviatoslav Richter in the 1950s, Vol. 4
