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Viktoria Postnikova spreads her prodigious talents evenly over Prokofiev’s most (No. 1) and least (Nos. 4 & 5) popular piano concertos. In the compact No.
Oprichnik was Tchaikovsky’s third opera, the first to have any measure of success. The composer recycled much of the music of his earlier Voyevoda, adapting
Dutch composer Matthijs Vermeulen’s wildly complex and inventive music resists easy classification, and yet it does not really do his work justice to say it
The recorded legacy of Daniil Shafran (1923-97) is huge, appearing during the Soviet era on the Melodiya label, though it’s still under-represented on CD. Cello
This live Royal Festival Hall performance took place just days before Rozhdestvensky and the BBC Symphony made their celebrated recording of the complete Sleeping Beauty.
In 1874 Tchaikovsky composed an opera, Vakula the Smith, that like many of his operatic works, failed with the public. Years later in 1885, Tchaikovsky
The two Shostakovich violin concertos hardly suffer from lack of excellent modern recordings, as Ilya Kaler (Naxos), Lydia Mordkovitch (Chandos), Dimitry Sitkovetsky (Virgin), and several
Ruggiero Ricci’s Tchaikovsky/Mendelssohn Concerto coupling was one of the more desirable items in Decca’s defunct Weekend Classics budget line. Along comes Universal’s Eloquence budget line,
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
Mstislav Rostropovich’s finest recording of the First Cello Concerto remains the one he made with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in the composer’s presence.
