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Riches has the versatility to sound at home in any language or musical idiom. He possesses a natural authority that never has to strive for effect, and his warm, supple bass-baritone is eminently... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Choral & Song Choice
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Shostakovich - Orchestral Songs & Waltzes
Sergei Leiferkus
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Sanderling
Satire of various hues is the running theme on this disc devoted mainly to songs from Shostakovich's embittered last 15 years. These have been orchestrated with a faultless grasp of the idiom... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2006, Editor's Choice
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Shostakovich - Songs & Operas
Luba Organosova (soprano), Elisabeth Söderström (soprano), Larissa Dyadkova (mezzo-soprano), Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Elena Zaremba (contralto), Philip Langridge (tenor), Ilya Levinsky (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Sergei Leiferkus (bass) &...
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Shostakovich Complete Songs - The Last Years Volume 2
Fyodor Kuznetsov (bass), Victoria Evtodieva (soprano), Lidia Kovalenko (violin), Irina Molokina (cello), Lyubov Sokolova (mezzo soprano)
Here are two CDs dedicated to some of the finest and most under-recorded song repertoire of the 20th century. Yury Serov is the presiding spirit; his sharply characterised piano playing radiating... — More…
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Shostakovich: Suite on Poems of Michelangelo & Four Verses of Cpt. Lebyadkin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
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Shostakovich: Romances
Song Cycles for Bass and Piano
Peter Gluboky (bass) & Natalia Rassudova (piano)
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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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Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola and 4 Verses of Captain Lebyadkin
Josef Suk (soloist), Jan Panenka (soloist), Josef Hála (soloist), Josef Spacek (vocalist)
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