Orchestral, Incidental Music, Shostakovich (composer)
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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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Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9
RecommendedBoston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Nelsons is spry and precisioned and his insistence on super-keen rhythm pays off big-time...The Fifth Symphony is quite marvellous...and like the Tenth should dominate the catalogue for a long... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th May 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Orchestral Performance
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Shostakovich: Symphonies; Concertos; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District
RecommendedYuja Wang (piano), Baiba Skride (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, New England Conservatory Symphonic Choir, Andris Nelsons
It truly is a monumental collection that shows both Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the height of their capabilities...If forced to choose I would say that the second movement of... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th March 2025
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This interpretation of the Leningrad pulls it all off with hyper-sophisticated playing and an alternation of tense atmosphere with electrifying release. Nelsons wins such beautiful phrasing,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2019, Recording of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, May 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Mikhail Pletnev delivers a strongly compelling and often illuminating interpretation of Shostakovich's final symphony. Whereas most conductors opt merely for the sardonic and satirical in the... —
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Building a Library, October 2022, Recommended Recording
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Shostakovich: Incidental Music, Film Music & Others
Allan Sjølin, Jesper Sivebæk, Tor Lind, Kenny Staškus Larsen, Edward Stewart, Christian Einarsson, Lars Notto Birkeland, Malmö Opera Chorus, Malmö Opera, Mark Fitz-Gerald
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Explosive Classics
Manchester Chamber Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Russian State...
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Special offer. Evgeny Svetlanov conducts Shostakovich & Tchaikovsky
USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
The present disc has indisputable documentary significance. With Soviet bloc tanks newly arrived on the streets of Prague on August 21, 1968, the Shostakovich...risked being seen as 'oppressor's... —
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Haitink's first recording with the LPO proves to be one of the highlights of the set, an account of Dvorák's Cello Concerto with Maurice Gendron rich in poetry and ardour. —
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$207.75
