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Available again through Arkivmusic.com’s valuable on-demand reissue program, this indispensable 1991 release imaginatively pairs Shostakovich’s Op. 34 Preludes with Alkan’s lesser-known yet equally quirky Op.
Where does one start in discussing Shostakovich’s The Nose? Funnier than the last quartet, more laden with irony than Babi Yar? Well, it’s a start.
This disc may be aimed more at the Shostakovich completist, but it’s no less wonderful for that. The Girlfriends is a major film score dating
Vasily Petrenko is an outstanding Shostakovich conductor, as attentive to small details as he is to larger issues of structure and balance; his Fifth Symphony
Billed as the start of a new complete Shostakovich symphony cycle, this initial entry holds a great deal of promise. The Eleventh Symphony has more
Taiwanese pianist Jenny Lin’s discography to date shows just how difficult it is for a talented young pianist to gain recognition in today’s glutted performing
In general, Jascha Nemtsov’s interpretations of Shostakovich’s Op. 34 Preludes split the difference between Konstantin Scherbakov’s lyrical bent and Olli Mustonen’s hyper-detailed virtuosity. The more
Serge Koussevitsky’s posthumous memory has worn poorly in the years since his death in 1951. That’s why we should be grateful for recordings like this
During the past few years Naxos has carved out a considerable piece of the historic reissue market simply by providing shellac-era favorites in newly minted
Okay, you’re not going to find the insane intensity of Rostropovich/Vishnevskaya/Reshetin in Ormandy’s Fourteenth symphony, but as you might expect, this Western premiere recording is
