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Grammy Awards, Shostakovich (composer)
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Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphony No. 10
RecommendedBoston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Powerful and beautifully crafted, this recording – the first from the relationship between DG and the Boston Symphony under Nelsons – is a hugely impressive sign of just what this ensemble/maestro... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st July 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2015, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2015, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Orchestral
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Grammy Awards, 58th Awards (2015), Best Orchestral Performance
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Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9
RecommendedBoston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Nelsons is spry and precisioned and his insistence on super-keen rhythm pays off big-time...The Fifth Symphony is quite marvellous...and like the Tenth should dominate the catalogue for a long... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th May 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Orchestral Performance
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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11 ‘The Year 1905‘
RecommendedBoston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Nelsons keeps a firm grip on the unfolding of the drama [in the 11th]. And here, as in the Fourth, his Boston Symphony Orchestra responds with supreme virtuosity from every section. Whether... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th July 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Orchestral Performance
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Recording of the Year
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Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos; Solo Works
RecommendedYuja Wang (piano), Thomas Rolfs (trumpet), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
In Yuja Wang’s hands the music comes across as delightfully playful, quick to register variety. Hardly any extended passage passes by without her lighting upon quicksilver changes of colour... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2025, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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Bernstein conveys the harrowing wartime narrative of the Leningrad with overwhelming emotional power, dispelling any lingering doubts about the greatness of Shostakovich's work. Recorded 20... —
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Grammy Awards, 33rd Awards (1990), Best Orchestral Performance
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Building A Library, December 2021, Recommended Recording
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Shostakovich: The Cello Concertos
RecommendedYo-Yo Ma (cello), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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The Emersons have played Shostakovich all over the world, and this long- pondered intégrale sets the seal on a process that has brought the quartets to the very centre of the repertoire – the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Chamber
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Grammy Awards, 43rd Awards (2000), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Grammy Awards, 43rd Awards (2000), Classical Album of the Year
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The Emersons have played Shostakovich all over the world, and this long- pondered intégrale sets the seal on a process that has brought the quartets to the very centre of the repertoire – the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Chamber
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Grammy Awards, 43rd Awards (2000), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Grammy Awards, 43rd Awards (2000), Classical Album of the Year
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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... —
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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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The Leningrad Symphony was composed in haste as the Nazis sieged and bombarded the city (in 1941). It caused an immediate sensation, but posterity has been less enthusiastic. What business has... —
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Grammy Awards, 33rd Awards (1990), Best Orchestral Performance
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