Browse: Presto Recordings of the Year, Shostakovich (composer)

Ibragimova is the latest to make you think you’ve never heard [the First Concerto] played better, and her intense relationship with Vladimir Jurowski and the current incarnation of Yevgeny Svetlanov’s... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The first surprise of this album – which you will absolutely want to hear – is the subtlety and intimacy of Levit’s playing…Only a handful of pianists have scaled the heights of Stevenson’s tour... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2015 More…

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... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2016 More…

Gugnin rivets us in orchestral-sounding climaxes…and the metaphysical twilight zones in between…Gugnin finds surprising poetry in the music...[The Limpid Stream] requires only poetic sensibility,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Shostakovich’s Second Quartet is remarkable for its sheer insistence...The Pavel Haas register all this to the nth degree, and I would have been inclined to hail this one of the finest of all... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2019 More…

Nelsons’s scrupulous, atmospheric attention to dynamic detail, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s sophisticated beauty and perfect engineering combine to give us finetuned mastery in Shostakovich’s... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The playing here, disarmingly gentle yet tonally seductive, has a songful use of vibrato that recalls the expressive manners of Pierre Fournier and du Pré herself…A most rewarding CD then, sure... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2018 More…

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 or... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, 5 out of 5 stars/4 out of 5 stars More…

a highly engrossing experience...the Takács come to the music from a somewhat different angle to their Soviet and Russian counterparts, emphasising closer connections with Western musical traditions... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…