Browse: Shostakovich - Prelude & Fugue for piano, Op. 87 No. 3 in G major

Melnikov unquestionably gives an impression of freshness and daring, as if he's discovering the music for the first time...Certainly one's bound to feel, listening to such superb playing, that... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The recording is clear and atmospheric, and the playing has power, grandeur, character, intellectual clarity and unforced intensity — Gramophone Magazine More…

Here's a Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues cycle to be reckoned with. It starts none too promisingly, with (by the highest standards) a rhythmically stiff, tonally lumpy C-major prelude and some... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…