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I’m frankly amazed (but not really surprised) that in this economically difficult time EMI releases two recordings of the intimidatingly grim Fourteenth Symphony. Still, this
In the insane ’80s and early ’90s Leonard Slatkin and St. Louis were making so many recordings for RCA that it was difficult to keep
This is the third volume in Chandos’ ongoing series of Shostakovich film music, which has been receiving a great deal of attention on disc. All
This reissue of two fine, very well engineered Shostakovich symphony performances vividly illustrates what went wrong with the classical recording industry, particularly at the major
This is an interesting and well-played program, even if only one of the works (Stravinsky’s Concerto in D) was actually written for the medium of
This live performance from 1978 is remarkable for how Kurt Sanderling gets this very French orchestra to play Shostakovich with such idiomatic surety. Right from
Oleg Caetani leads a wonderfully youthful, invigorating account of the First Symphony, adopting some daringly fast tempos both in the opening movement’s march music and
If future releases in the Mandelring Quartet’s projected Shostakovich cycle match this first volume’s revelatory excellence (not to mention Audite’s realistically detailed surround sound), the
Shostakovich’s Suite on Words of Michelangelo was his last major orchestral work. Like the 14th Symphony, it sets 11 poems, but the orchestration is much
The Shostakovich anniversary year will expand the already generous catalogue of the composer’s recordings, but this one shouldn’t get lost in the crowd. Daniel Hope,
