Browse: Blu-Ray Video, Shostakovich (composer)

The Tenth Symphony is by far and away the best of these three performances...Under Petrenko the great arc of the first movement is mapped with a grandly defiant symphonic logic...When it comes,... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2023 More…

Talking heads opine that Solti's career only soared after Bohm retired and Karajan died...it does provide some remarkable anecdotes...such as Solti becoming great cronies with Theodor Adorno...Most... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…is a sophisticated Russian New Year's Eve event from Berlin. …the impression remains that Rattle brings off the subtler, more atmospheric passages best. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Respighi's Pines and Fountains of Rome sound absolutely ravishing here - one can only sit in awe at such fine-tuned (in every way) virtuosity...Bravo! — International Record Review, June 2012 More…

There's plenty of contrast [in the Shchedrin]: the misalliance of the two soloists, who only really come together in the climbing apotheosis; the cello in extreme registers; the piano's toccata... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Both directors capture [Argerich's] unique artistry...she sets about the down-to-earth matter of sublime music-making, pulling all her colleagues into her spell...Takacs-Nagy partners Argerich... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…