Concertos, Shostakovich (composer)
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Shostakovich: Violin Concertos
RecommendedAlina Ibragimova (violin), State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia 'Evgeny Svetlanov', Vladimir Jurowski
Ibragimova is the latest to make you think you’ve never heard [the First Concerto] played better, and her intense relationship with Vladimir Jurowski and the current incarnation of Yevgeny Svetlanov’s... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th May 2020
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Record Review, 6th June 2020, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2020, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2020, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Winner - Concerto
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Shostakovich: Violin Concertos
RecommendedAlina Ibragimova (violin), State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia 'Evgeny Svetlanov', Vladimir Jurowski
Ibragimova is the latest to make you think you’ve never heard [the First Concerto] played better, and her intense relationship with Vladimir Jurowski and the current incarnation of Yevgeny Svetlanov’s... —
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th May 2020
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Record Review, 6th June 2020, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2020, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Winner - Concerto
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Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos; Solo Works
RecommendedYuja Wang (piano), Thomas Rolfs (trumpet), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
In Yuja Wang’s hands the music comes across as delightfully playful, quick to register variety. Hardly any extended passage passes by without her lighting upon quicksilver changes of colour... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2025, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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Prokofiev & Shostakovich: Cello Concertos
RecommendedSteven Isserlis (cello)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
Here at last is a recording to persuade sceptics that Prokofiev's Cello Concerto is not just an interesting but rather drab failure...both Isserlis and Jarvi leave their competition standing... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd March 2015
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Concerto Finalist
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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If there’s a better recording of the Second Concerto out there, I haven’t heard it. —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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This is audibly a hugely enjoyable collaborative venture, the mellow warmth of the four saxophones and the contrasted tonal colouring of Jang Eun Bae’s piano providing a surprisingly convincing... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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The playing here, disarmingly gentle yet tonally seductive, has a songful use of vibrato that recalls the expressive manners of Pierre Fournier and du Pré herself…A most rewarding CD then, sure... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Newcomer (cello)
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2; Britten: Cello Sonata
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Sinfonia of London, John Wilson, Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Sheku Kanneh-Mason states that he has played [the Shostakovich sonata] since his teenage years, and his affinity with its melodic phrases and emotional tenor is well formed. He brings a lovely... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2025, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Prokofiev & Shostakovich Violin Concertos No. 1
Maxim Vengerov (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Concerto
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Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedBoris Giltburg (piano), Rhys Owens (trumpet)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Boris Giltburg and Vasily Petrenko are a tight unit, the pianist’s dashing virtuosity and subtlety of touch matched by equally incisive interpolations from the orchestra —
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Building A Library, May 2021, Recommended Recording - Piano Concerto No. 2
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