Scottish National Orchestra
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 'Leningrad'
RecommendedScottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
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Building A Library, December 2021, Also Recommended
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Neeme Jarvi draws the most seductive response from the SNO; he consistently creates orchestral textures which are diaphanously sinuous. Yet the robust moments…are caught just as strikingly and... —
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Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedLydia Mordkovitch (violin)
Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
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Gramophone Awards, 1990, Winner - Concerto
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Special offer. Shostakovich - Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedLydia Mordkovitch (violin)
Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
This coupling completely explodes the idea of the Second Violin Concerto being a disappointment after the dramatic originality of No 1.
Certainly No 2, completed in 1967, a year after the very... —Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1990, Winner - Concerto
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Great Violin Concertos
David Oistrakh (violin), Sviatoslav Knushevitsky (cello), Lev Oborin (piano), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Igor Oistrakh (viola), Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Philharmonia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Scottish National Orchestra, Stockholm Festival...
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a good choice for those wanting first-class digital recordings of these symphonies, the sound full and naturally balanced...Järvi is a consistently persuasive Dvorakian —
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-4 & Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Howard Shelley (piano)
Scottish National Orchestra, Bryden Thomson
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Elgar: Coronation Ode & The Spirit of England
Teresa Cahill (soprano), Anne Collins (contralto), Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor), Gwynne Howell (bass)
Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson
Gibson's performances combine fire and panache, and the recorded sound has an ideal Elgarian expansiveness, the choral tone rich and well focused, the orchestral brass given plenty of weight. —