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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 & Barber: Adagio for Strings RecommendedPittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
Honeck’s Shostakovich sounds magnificent. From intense pianissimos to the shrieking upper register and full bass thwack of a grand peroration – which Honeck takes surprisingly at face value –... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedFrank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Alan Gilbert
[these recordings] stand out as formidable achievements. They match technical mastery at the highest level with profound insight. No less impressive is the compelling interaction between Zimmermann... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2017, Disc of the month
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Classical Instrumental Solo
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Record Review, 21st January 2017, Recording of the Week
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Shostakovich: The Nose
RecommendedVladislav Sulimsky, Alexei Tanovitski, Tatiana Kravtsova, Andrei Popov, Sergei Semishkur, Gennady Bezzubenkov, Vadim Kravets, Sergei Skorokhodov, Yevgeny Strashko, Elena Vitman & Zhanna Dombrovskaya
Mariinsky Orchestra & Chorus, Valery Gergiev
…Gergiev… wrings superb playing from his band, bringing real panache to the rapid alternations of contrast and grotesquerie and to the brilliantly inventive interludes. Vladislav Sulimsky as... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st June 2009
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Opera Finalist
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Opera, August 2009, Recording of the Month
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Shostakovich: Works Unveiled
Ekaterina Bakanova (soprano), Alexandros Stavrakakis (bass), Nicolas Stavy (piano), Florent Jodelet (percussion), Sueye Park (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
the earliest music, a collection of four short piano pieces composed during Shostakovich’s teenage years, is fluent but largely derivative. Yet the rest of the album has much to offer. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Premiere Recordings
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It’s the symphony that might or might not have recalibrated Shostakovich’s future and it’s still one of the trickiest to pull off in performance. Noseda meets it halfway – which makes for pluses... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Another terrific release from this source. — More…
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 'Babi Yar'
RecommendedOleg Tsibulko (bass)
Russian National Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
This beautifully engineered studio recording under Kirill Karabits has all the necessary adrenaline to keep the listener fully engaged. Karabits is particularly effective in negotiating the tricky... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th July 2020
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14; Six Verses of Marina Tsvetayeva Elizabeth Atherton (soprano), Peter Rose (bass), Jess Dandy (contralto), BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds
The BBC Philharmonic under John Storgårds, in this third instalment of their symphonic Shostakovich series, are exemplary, whether in the sotto voce opening of the Symphony, or in the horrif... — More…
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An extremely impressive achievement. For once, the razorsharp clarity of texture and dazzling precision of ensemble that Noseda secures from the orchestra in blistering accounts of opening movement,... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 'The year 1905'
RecommendedNetherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth
[Wigglesworth] gets playing of great refinement from the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, setting the scene in the opening movement The Palace Square perfectly, but can also conjure up raw brutality... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2017, Also Recommended
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