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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 & Barber: Adagio for Strings
RecommendedPittsburgh 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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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Recorded in remarkably vivid sound at the Barbican in December 2019, this is an exceptionally fine performance. Gianandrea Noseda brings a tremendous sense of strength and purpose to the opening...The... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, Orchestral Choice
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 & Violin Concerto No. 1
RecommendedLeonidas Kavakos (violin)
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
They capture not only the joyful irreverence of the movement but the sense of danger lurking beneath the surface…the solo wind playing is excellent throughout…brilliantly played and vividly recorded. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Storgårds in Manchester gives an appropriately humanised interpretation, set on a wide sound stage that is one of Chandos’s natural best. The cinematic opening twitches with inner life, all dynamics... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 'Babi Yar'
RecommendedOleg Tsibulko (bass)
Russian National Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
This beautifully engineered studio recording under Kirill Karabits has all the necessary adrenaline to keep the listener fully engaged. Karabits is particularly effective in negotiating the tricky... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th July 2020
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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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BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, Orchestral Choice
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Shostakovich - Symphonies Nos. 9 & 12
RecommendedNetherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth
If the first movement of the Ninth seems playful rather than sarcastic, Wigglesworth's fine ear for orchestral sonority always brings out unusual elements in the scoring. His insights make this... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2016, Also Recommended
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, Orchestral Choice
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It’s the symphony that might or might not have recalibrated Shostakovich’s future and it’s still one of the trickiest to pull off in performance. Noseda meets it halfway – which makes for pluses... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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