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These things—meaning whole programs of so-called “encores”—are fundamentally pointless: after […]
Most of the performances here are well known to collectors of Kubelik and historical recordings. They were captured in the period between the end of
Aside from the Shostakovich Second Piano Concerto, Denis Matsuev has recorded this music before, and quite recently. The First Piano Concerto was released on a
Bernard Haitink conducts a beautiful performance, magnificently played, particularly considering its live provenance. The first movement has plenty of character, thanks to the RCO’s delicious
The Twelfth is not Shostakovich’s best symphony, but it’s not as bad as its detractors would have us believe. The first two movements in particular
Cedille certainly produces some of the smartest “concept” albums in the classical music business today, because the concept always seems to work musically. Now the
Pieter Wispelwey certainly ranks among today’s finest cellists. His recordings for Channel Classics have been uniformly outstanding, due both to the label’s own high quality
First things first: Shostakovich never wrote a ballet called The Young Lady and the Hooligan. Rather, the score was cobbled together from existing works by
Alexander Chaushian and Yevgeny Sudbin don’t let their hair down in the Rachmaninov cello sonata as do Wendy Warner and Irina Nuzova, who display noticeably
We are drowning in Shostakovich in this, his centenary year, and much of it is excellent, even extraordinary. Like Mahler, this is a composer whose
