
Moscow, 1952. Not exactly the time and place for anyone in his right mind to want to be, but this recording makes you wish for
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
These are big-boned, rich sounding performances of Borodin’s irresistibly tuneful and colorful symphonies. Mark Ermler draws solid, burnished sonorities from the brass, who play a