SACD, Shostakovich (composer)
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This recording is an absolute winner. As in its previous explorations of Shostakovich, primarily on the Harmonia Mundi label, the Jerusalem Quartet provides consummately brilliant playing throughout,... — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2025, Recording of the Month
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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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Special offer. 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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An extremely impressive achievement. For once, the razorsharp clarity of texture and dazzling precision of ensemble that Noseda secures from the orchestra in blistering accounts of opening movement,... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Noseda is lithe but never fast, as he sometimes used to be, for the sake of it, and the slow movement based on the poignant lament for the fallen of 1905 is deeply moving, as it should be. — More…
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedFrank 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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BBC Music Magazine, March 2017, Disc of the month
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Classical Instrumental Solo
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Record Review, 21st January 2017, Recording of the Week
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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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Noseda scarcely puts a foot wrong and for some listeners that may be the problem...It might be argued that the orchestra has never played the Fifth ‘better’ and, as the performance has been... — 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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Another terrific release from this source. — More…
