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A stunning recording makes the climaxes of this humongous symphony sound splendid: it’s what happens before and after that lets the performance down. Often, Haitink
It’s remarkable how completely the twenty-something British violin virtuoso Daniel Hope enters into the often tortured world of eastern European composers. The centerpiece of this
While Kurt Masur’s new Shostakovich “Leningrad Symphony” may not displace memories of Bernstein, Järvi, Kondrashin, or Mravinsky in this monumental work, it’s still a highly
It is always a delightful dilemma to be faced with recordings of the same works that are of almost equal caliber. That is the case
The three quartets on this disc form the core of Shostakovich’s quartet output; each work is a masterpiece. We seem to be living in a
Nikolai Roslavets (1881-1944) shared the tragic fate of many Russian composers of the first half of the century. Born in rural Ukraine, he started violin
The title of this disc is somewhat misleading, as there is very little music on it originally composed by Shostakovich. The Overture (Entr’Acte) to Poor
David Oistrakh, proclaims the cover in both English and Cyrillic, followed by “The Essential”. Lest the unsuspecting prospective listener think this two-disc set is a
In an interview for Gramophone magazine, violinist Lawrence Dutton of the Emerson Quartet professed his adoration of the Borodin Quartet’s Shostakovich cycle from the late
Unlike most of William Kapell’s recordings, his Prokofiev Third and Khachaturian Concertos have gone through several reissue incarnations prior to the present release. Jon Samuels’
