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Despite the short playing times, these six discs offer a […]
If you’ve been following this series, you already know that it’s one of the great Shostakovich quartet cycles, outstanding even in a very crowded field.
Cedille certainly produces some of the smartest “concept” albums in the classical music business today, because the concept always seems to work musically. Now the
Wendy Warner is a magnificent cellist, and in Irina Nuzova she has found a keyboard partner who matches her in passion, elegance, and imagination. The
It’s remarkable how Nikolai Miaskovsky’s final symphony, composed in 1949, sounds as if it had been written even earlier than his 1923 Symphony No. 6
These two lovely symphonies certainly belong in the collection of anyone who cares about Russian symphonic music, though the performances on display here are far
Nikolai Miaskovsky’s Sixth is the most frequently performed of his 27 symphonies, although its familiarity among Western audiences remains relatively slight. A big, post-romantic work,
No, the world is not exactly screaming for another recording of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, even one as attractive and energetic as this; but happily Vadim
Nikolai Miaskovsky (1881-1950) first embarked on a military career but then studied music with Taneyev, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Glazunov among others. He went on to compose
