Rubicon - up to 35% off
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Special offer. Leducq-Barôme conducts Shostakovich & Strauss
Baltic Chamber Orchestra, Emmanuel Leducq-Barôme
Played here with sensitivity and intent, these elegiac works have a haunting quality. The recorded sound is slightly foggy —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. The Poet’s Echo
Britten - Prokofiev - Shostakovich
Gemma Summerfield (soprano), Gareth Brynmor John (baritone), Abi Hyde-Smith, Jocelyn Freeman (piano)
The album’s main glory is the singing of Gemma Summerfield, a soprano endowed with a firm technique and an intense tone with laser-beam attributes even on high. Phrasing and expression are excellent,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2023
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The performances of both the Saariaho and Shostakovich are extremely insightful. The Shostakovich is outstanding in delineating the quartet's disturbing narrative, from seemingly carefree innocence... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2025, Chamber Choice
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The Dudoks deliver a rhythmically dynamic and wonderfully nuanced account of the Bacewicz. Their Shostakovich is also impressive, projecting tremendous power, ferocity and forward momentum in... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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She draws us into [Shostakovic's] unsettled world, in which a restless Allegretto and angular Largo lead to the spare, lonely lines of the final Moderato. Gubaidulina’s Chaconne provides a suitably... —
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the playing is exquisitely judged, shifting between fragility and strength, alienation and familiarity. The recorded sound is intimate, creating compelling sonic affinities. —
