I Musici de Montréal

Reference Recording: Shostakovich Chamber Symphonies

Victor Carr Jr

This compilation of reissues makes for an excellent Shostakovich disc. […]

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VIOLONCHELO ESPAÑOL

David Vernier

First, if you love music for cello and orchestra, you’ll certainly enjoy the program and especially the spirited playing and luxurious tone of celebrated cellist,

Corigliano: Symphony No. 2, etc./Turovsky

Jed Distler

Yuli Turovsky and I Musici de Montréal offer a very different listening experience in John Corigliano’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Second Symphony (a masterful and imaginative string-orchestra

LATIN IMPRESSIONS

David Hurwitz

The largest piece in this excellently realized and important collection of Latin American music for chamber orchestra is Portuguese composer Joly Braga Santos’ Concerto in

Mya-Schnit-Den

Victor Carr Jr

Nikolai Myaskovsky’s Sinfonietta, composed in 1929, is not only the longest work (at 24 minutes) on this disc, but also is the least compelling. The

Whale Spirit Rising. Musici Montreal

ClassicsToday

This excellent CD presents a triptych of contemporary elegies in performances that seem definitive. The Fantasia by Marjan Mozetich is the most accessible and arresting