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Pianist Elena Rozanova begins her entry in Harmonia Mundi’s “Les Nouveaux Musiciens” series with Prokofiev’s Toccata, sacrificing tone and character for sheer speed at the
The challenge this set faces can be summed up in one word: Barshai. Since Brilliant Classics released that Russian conductor’s Shostakovich cycle, a supreme achievement
The Sorrel Quartet approaches Shostakovich’s string quartets Nos. 8, 9, and 13 with tremendous energy, vigor, and an emotional intensity that reveals their deep feelings
This disc has more reason to exist than most in Chandos’ embarrassingly bad series of recordings featuring these forces, but that doesn’t make it a
Khachaturian composed his 1963 Concerto Rhapsody for Rostropovich. It’s a sprawling, aptly named work that undergoes a series of colorful and fantastical gyrations that Rostropovich
The dozen-member BT Scottish Ensemble turns in as devastating a performance of Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony in C minor (a.k.a. String Quartet No. 8) as any,
André Previn’s 1973 recording of Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony is no match for Rostropovich’s uncompromisingly brutal 1992 version from Washington, available at budget price on Teldec
Konstantin Scherbakov’s 24 Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues leapfrog to the head of a small yet distinguished class on disc, whose valedictorians include Tatiana Nikolaeva and
The opening of Borodin’s Second Symphony practically lunges at you in this performance. The Vancouver strings dig in deep but with impressively clean articulation, and
The performances on this disc are predictably fine–vintage Stokowski in fact–and not too badly recorded given their provenance (Royal Albert Hall, 1969). There’s only one
