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I’ve slogged through a lot of these Brilliant Classics boxes, […]
The Brilliant Classics label earlier released Rudolf Barshai’s 1990s recordings of all 15 Shostakovich symphonies to great acclaim. Thus, its release of five further Barshai/Shostakovich
Rudolf Barshai created these arrangements of Shostakovich’s Quartets Nos. 3, 4, 8, and 10, and while his performances have been equalled in some instances (notably
This is Leonard Bernstein’s later version of Shostakovich’s Fifth, captured live while the New York Philharmonic was on tour in Tokyo. It’s an excellent performance,
Boris Belkin’s playing style–a mixture of lean, sinewy articulation and silky smooth tone–ideally suits the Prokofiev concertos, themselves an amalgam of musical angles and curves.
What can you get for $22 these days? Well, in New York City that would buy you two movie tickets and maybe a candy bar.
Rozhdestvensky’s Pathétique is a solid and steady affair, the polar opposite of Mravinsky’s fleet speeds and high-strung tension. However, slower tempos do not signify dullness
Rudolf Barshai’s Mahler Fifth earned a “10” for artistic quality when it first appeared on Laurel Records (type Q558 in Search Reviews to find that
A few clarifications are in order. These performances date from 1994, not 1993 as the booklet indicates. The booklet correctly mentions that these are the
A technical question: Since Herschel Burke Gilbert produced these sessions recorded by West German Radio in association with American Digital, wouldn’t it stand to reason
