Latest News: Classical, Shostakovich (composer)
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Recording of the Week,
Shostakovich Cello Concertos from Truls Mørk 28th April 2014David listens to gripping accounts of Shostakovich’s two Cello Concertos from Truls Mørk, with Vasily Petrenko at the podium.
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Recording of the Week,
New Shostakovich discovery - Orango 2nd July 2012Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the world premiere recording of an embryonic opera which Shostakovivch abandoned partway through the Prologue, fleshed out and orchestrated here by Gerard McBurney.
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Recording of the Week,
Shostakovich Symphonies from Petrenko and the RLPO 11th June 2012The seventh instalment of the Russian conductor’s acclaimed Shostakovich cycle finds his Liverpool orchestra on top form in the Second and Fifteenth Symphonies.
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Recording of the Week,
Gergiev at the Mariinsky 1st June 2009The Russian conductor presides over a ‘thoroughly worthwhile’ recording of Shostakovich’s surreal first opera The Nose, composed between 1927 and 1928 and based on a short story by Nikolai Gogol.
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Recording of the Week,
Shostakovich 11 from the RLPO 6th April 2009The latest instalment of Vasily Petrenko’s Shostakovich cycle with his Liverpool orchestra prompts Chris to draw comparisons with Rattle’s landmark work with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra…
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Recording of the Week,
Bach Fugues from Onyx and the Emersons 16th June 2008A British brass quintet and American string quartet (who recently recorded an impressive account of The Art of Fugue) tackle fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier.