Browse: DVD Video, Shostakovich (composer)
Offer, Teodor Currentzis conducts The Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Teodor Currentzis
Offer, Notes Interdites
Two Films by Bruno Monsaingeon
Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, films directed by Bruno Monsaingeon
By starting with the elegiac big tune of Zdravitsa, Prokofiev's toast to Stalin's 60th birthday. Bruno Monsaingeon's The Red Baton threatens to follow an all too familiar path, tormenting the... — More…
Offer, Russian Opera Classics Box Set
Orlin Anastassov (Boris), Alessandra Marianelli (Xenia), Pavel Zubov (Fyodor), Ian Storey (Grigory), Vladimir Vaneev (Pimen), Peter Bronder (Prince Shuisky), Vasily Ladjuk (Andrey Shchelkalov), Vladimir Matorin (Varlaam), Luca Casalin (Missail), Nadezhda Serdjuk (Innkeeper), Evgeny Akimov (Holy Fool),...
Offer, Berliner Philharmoniker: Yutaka Sado
Recorded live from the Philharmonie, Berlin, May, 20th 2011
Raphael Haeger, Simon Rössler, Franz Schindlbeck, Jan Schlichte & Wieland Welzel (percussion)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Yutaka Sado
[Sado] digs unostentatiously deep in both the fluid and monumental aspects of this concert, given to raise funds for the Japanese earthquake and tsunami disaster. Much in the two chosen works... — More…
Testimony: The Story of Shostakovich
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai
Tony Palmer's study of Shostakovich is typically revelatory. Palmer follows the line presented by the unauthorized biography, Testimony, that the composer was hostile to the Soviet regime, whatever... — More…
Offer, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Offer, New Year’s Eve Concert Silvesterkonzert 2017
Joyce DiDonato
Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle
Offer, Sir Simon Rattle – Essence of an Era
The Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
Yuri Bashmet - Shostakovich: Viola Sonata
Yuri Bashmet (viola)
Sir Georg Solti in Concert
From the Gasteig Philharmonic Hall, Munich 1990
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
Solti at his finest with the Bavarian catching the right ambivalent humour in the Shostakovich. His Pathétique is restrained and darkly brooding, never over-sentimental or blatant. — More…