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There are very, very few bad recordings of Shostakovich’s massive […]
Here is what amounts to an SACD upgrading of Sviatoslav Richter in Prague Volume 4, featuring the celebrated pianist in live broadcast performances of Beethoven’s
These performances remain reference recordings for all of this music. The Three-Cornered Hat and dance from La Vida Breve were recorded by Decca, Nights in
One of the problems with recommending reference recordings for composers
Mravinsky’s Shostakovich Fifth is a very well-known quantity, and if
Praga’s first release in a series of SACD remasterings devoted to Sviatoslav Richter and Rachmaninov’s music restores the great pianist’s 1955 First concerto and 1959
Simply put, the Pražák Quartet is one of the the world’s finest ensembles, and this disc serves to reinforce that reputation. At its centerpiece is
What an outstanding release! Pavel Haas was one of the many Czech/Jewish composers interned by the Nazis at the Terezin concentration camp before being sent
Schubert’s last quartet teems with harmonic and melodic inventiveness and near-symphonic scope. The Prazàk Quartet players are exemplary Schubertians, their performance well-paced and incisive, giving
In Bartók’s first two quartets, the Párkányi Quartet does its finest work in slow moving, introspective passages. For example, although the composer writes “molto espressivo”
