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Alpha - up to 45% off, Shostakovich (composer)
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 & Sinfonietta
RecommendedEstonian Festival Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
[Järvi’s] super-group is not huge but its bright clarity, with violins antiphonally placed, does not preclude the plumbing of depths both physical and emotional…This must be one of the finer... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th January 2018
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Special offer. Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, Denissov: Cello Sonatas
Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello), Jonas Vitaud (piano)
The disc opens with a performance of Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata which, if neither the weightiest nor the most brilliant on disc, yields to no one in pure musicality. Julien-Laferrière has a... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14
Asmik Grigorian (soprano), Matthias Goerne (baritone), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Mikko Franck
Goerne’s background in Lieder serves him well, but Grigorian makes the whole performance. This takes nothing away from the perfectly satisfying conducting of Mikko Franck and the excellent playing... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic
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The Belcea Quartet’s first Shostakovich release offers much food for thought. Their insightful performance of the Third Quartet fully encapsulates the work’s war-scarred anguish…Anderszewski... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2018
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Record Review, 5th May 2018, Recording of the Week
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Krzysztof Urbański
There’s not the red-raw playing of corrosive brass of Kirill Kondrashin’s Moscow Philharmonic (on Melodiya’s indispensable set) but the Hamburgers still generate plenty of excitement…Urbanski’s... — More…
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Vinnitskaya and Kremerata Baltica collaborate in a particularly alert and responsive performance [of the Second Concerto]: the outer movements are perky and playful, and the well-loved slow... — More…
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14 in G minor, Op. 135
Julia Korpacheva (soprano) & Petr Migunov (bass)
MusicAeterna Novosibirsk, Teodor Currentzis (direction)
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Special offer. Shostakovich - Krokodil
Nadja Smirnova (soprano), Petr Migunov (bass), Marie Hallynck (cello), Arthur Schoonderwoerd (pianoforte), Graf Mourja (violin)
The two Russian singers deliver very expressive accounts of the vocal works, Nadja Smirnov in particular effecting a beautiful lyricism in the Blok cycle. Of the two extended instrumental works,... — More…
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