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Special offer. Rachmaninov & Myaskovsky: Sonatas for Cello and Piano
RecommendedBruno Philippe (cello) & Jérôme Ducros (piano)
'It’s difficult to understand why Nikolai Myaskovsky’s First Cello Sonata remains so neglected…Philippe inflects the music with great fervour, strongly supported by Jérôme Ducros’s impressive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7, Op. 131 - Myaskovsky: Sinfonietta, Op. 68, No. 2
RecommendedOslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Petrenko makes a persuasive case for this underrated and lovable work [the Prokofiev], aided by superb orchestral playing and glowing sound. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 & Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 27
RecommendedOslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Curiously, perhaps, it’s the interpretation of the less well-known and distinctive symphony which wins this disc its five stars...Although the bittersweet bucolics of Myaskovsky’s 27th could... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st May 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Tchaikovsky & Miaskovsky: Violin Concertos
RecommendedVadim Repin (violin)
Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
It's the Myaskovsky that really makes this disc a 'must-have'. His Violin Concerto was premiered by David Oistrakh in Leningrad in 1939. As with Tchaikovsky's Concerto, the opening tutti plays... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2003, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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As these heartfelt performances demonstrate, these are not cowed and dutifully conservative works…Van der Heijden plays with attractively songful tone throughout, rich yet grainy in her instrument’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Newcomer of the Year
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Special offer. Russian Cello Sonatas
RecommendedTruls Mørk (cello) & Jean-Yves Thibaudet & Lars Vogt (piano)
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Building a Library, April 2017, First Choice
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Coming soon. Myaskovsky: Alastor, Symphony No. 7 & The Kremlin by Night
Alexander Trofimov, Albina Shaikhieva
Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra, Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir, Alexander Rudin
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There can be no doubt what really matters here – a powerful and revelatory take on a masterpiece, Prokofiev’s Fifth. Its schizoid nature – epic and parody in alarming alternation – is highlighted... —
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Special offer. Svetlanov Edition Volume 35
RecommendedMiaskovsky: Complete Symphonies & Orchestral Works
USSR State Symphony & Orchestra Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation
Evgeny Svetlanov
…if Myaskovsky ultimately remains a flawed genius, there is little doubt that his symphonic journey offers far more peaks than troughs. …the conductor's passionate commitment to the music carries... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd June 2008
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Orchestral
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The Soviet Experience Volume I
String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries
Pacifica Quartet
their sense of the musical argument is always impressive, shining through their objective but never over-slick approach. The Pacifica Quartet only seem to draw breath, like Shostakovich, between... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, Chamber Choice
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