Chamber, Quintets, Piano Quintets, Shostakovich (composer)
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Shostakovich: Piano Quintet & String Quartet No. 2
RecommendedMarc-André Hamelin (piano)
Takács Quartet
a highly engrossing experience...the Takács come to the music from a somewhat different angle to their Soviet and Russian counterparts, emphasising closer connections with Western musical traditions... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th April 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1, Piano Quintet & Concertino
RecommendedMartha Argerich (piano), Sergei Nakariarov (trumpet), Renaud Capucon (violin), Mischa Maisky (cello), Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Alissa Margulis (violin) & Lyda Chen (viola)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Alexander Verdernikov
Here's an excellent, multi-faceted programme which reflects both Shostakovich's madcap humour and his more "private", expressive side. A truly charismatic and exhilarating experience. —
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Orchestral Award Winner
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Building a Library, March 2019, Recommended Recording
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Building a Library, May 2006, Historic Choice
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Building a Library, March 2019, Also Recommended
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Russian Cello Sonatas
RecommendedLynn Harrell (cello), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Fitzwilliam Quartet
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Building a Library, January 2007, Budget Choice
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The Belcea Quartet’s first Shostakovich release offers much food for thought. Their insightful performance of the Third Quartet fully encapsulates the work’s war-scarred anguish…Anderszewski... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2018
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Record Review, 5th May 2018, Recording of the Week
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Shostakovich: Piano Concertos and Piano Quintet
Martin Helmchen (piano), Paul Beniston (trumpet), Pieter Schoeman, Vesselin Gellev (violin), Alexander Zemtsov (viola) & Kristina Blaumane (cello)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Helmchen shows himself adept in all aspects of No. 1's quirky humour and satirical modernism, No. 2's playful high spirits and - in the famous Andante - a nostalgic romanticism Rachmaninov might... —
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Glière, Shostakovich & Hahn
Hanna Weinmeister, Tanja Tetzlaff, Florian Donderer, Byol Kang, Gergana Gergova, Timothy Ridout and Arturo Pizarro
These excellent Heimbach performances are recorded in vivid, spacious, well-balanced, realistic sound, with well-defined instrumental timbres. The works on this release are not too well known... —
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Shostakovich: Piano Quintet & Seven Romances of Alexander Blok
Trio Wanderer, Ekatarina Semenchuk (mezzo-soprano), Catherine Montier (violin), Christophe Gaugué (viola)
A performance that is comprehensively responsive to the various different strands in the work. In a relatively unmannered interpretation, the Wanderers negotiate the Quintet’s complex narrative... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, Chamber Choice
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Je n'aime pas le classique, mais ça j'aime bien!
Alicia de Larrocha (piano), Nelly Kokinos (piano), Vladimir Spivakov (violin), Sergei, Steven Isserlis (cello), Xavier De Maistre (piano), Julian Bream (guitar), Johns Williams (guitar), James Galway (flute), Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ), Samuel Lipman & Leo Litwin (pianos), Martin Hoherman (xylophone),...
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