Browse: DVD Video, Shostakovich (composer)
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…
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…
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…
Offer, Shostakovich: The Nose
Eduard Akimov (Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov), Alexander Lomonosov (The Nose), Valery Belykh (Ivan Yakovlevich, a barber), Nina Sasulova (Praskovia Osipovna, the barber's wife), Boris Tarkhov (Local Policeman), Boris Druzhinin (Ivan, Kovalyov's footman), Ashot Sarkisov (Doctor)
Soloists, Chorus and...
Rozhdestvensky leads a production in which the irreverent, slapstick-esque elements of the score are brought to the fore. — More…
Teodor Currentzis conducts The Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Teodor Currentzis
