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Although it was never completed, Shostakovich’s odd little opera, based on a Gogol one-act play and written just after his Symphony No. 7, is well
Theodore Kuchar’s authoritative way with 20th century Russian symphonies has been well documented in his Prokofiev recordings on Naxos. He is no less masterful in
A new Jan Vogler recording is always worth checking out. He’s been going through all the major cello (chamber) repertoire on Berlin Classics, and this
How can someone listen to–or play–Shostakovich without placing him historically or politically? So much of his music was written as an overt or indirect response
Latica Honda-Rosenberg was the Second Prize winner in the 1998 Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow, the first German ever to reach the finals. What must have
Neeme Järvi has given thought-provoking accounts of Shostakovich’s symphonies Nos. 11, 12, and 13 with the Gothenburg Symphony. He now turns to Symphony No. 2
Valeri Polyansky’s Russian symphonic series for Chandos has exhibited varying levels of accomplishment, but it reaches a new low with this hopelessly blasé recording of
Conductor Vakhtang Jordania knows this symphony well, and he encourages the Royal Philharmonic to do much better than its ordinarily tepid best in conveying the
This is a set that even Celibidache fans may find hard to love. The playing of the Swedish Radio Symphony, with which the conductor gave
Here’s yet another unnecessary recording of no particular distinction. Mind you, it’s not bad. The Ninth Symphony has both precision and charm, some especially spiffy
