Browse: SACD, Shostakovich (composer)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 & Barber: Adagio for Strings
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
Honeck’s Shostakovich sounds magnificent. From intense pianissimos to the shrieking upper register and full bass thwack of a grand peroration – which Honeck takes surprisingly at face value –... — More…
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Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
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Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Alan Gilbert
[these recordings] stand out as formidable achievements. They match technical mastery at the highest level with profound insight. No less impressive is the compelling interaction between Zimmermann... — More…
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 'Leningrad'
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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
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Haitink's supreme control of pacing [in the slow movement] ensures that all the pregnant silences in the music are imbued with a real sense of anxiety...Likewise Haitink's slow tempo in the main... — More…
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[Noseda] has a firm handle on the depth and breadth of the symphony, chronicling his way through its empty wastes and bone-crushing upheavals of rolling percussion. The first movement’s long... — More…
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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Thomas Sanderling, Linus Roth, London Symphony Orchestra
Roth is stark and uncompromising throughout, drawing you into its claustrophobic world, especially in the central Adagio. Thomas Sanderling and the London Symphony Orchestra provide sturdy support... — More…
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Vladimir Jurowski is… surely the most rounded Shostakovich interpreter to have emerged for many years, holding the balance between brooding song and headlong dance in perfect equilibrium. — More…
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1
& other short works
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Gustavo Gimeno
The performances throughout by the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg under Gustavo Gimeno are excellent, highly polished yet full of subtle nuance, wit and spirit, beautifully captured in... — More…
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Shostakovich: The Nose
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Vladislav Sulimsky, Alexei Tanovitski, Tatiana Kravtsova, Andrei Popov, Sergei Semishkur, Gennady Bezzubenkov, Vadim Kravets, Sergei Skorokhodov, Yevgeny Strashko, Elena Vitman & Zhanna Dombrovskaya
Mariinsky Orchestra & Chorus, Valery Gergiev
…Gergiev… wrings superb playing from his band, bringing real panache to the rapid alternations of contrast and grotesquerie and to the brilliantly inventive interludes. Vladislav Sulimsky as... — More…
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[Shostakovich] Hemsing is as fine in the third movement as the first in progressively ratcheting up the tension before easing down into the cadenza, which in turn grows steadily to a searing... — More…