A Musical Picture - up to 40% off selected titles
A Musical Picture - Until 18th September 2024, we are offering up to 40% off titles on selected labels on CD, Vinyl, Blu-Ray & DVD, and download.
A Musical Picture - up to 40% off selected titles, Shostakovich (composer)
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 & Sinfonietta
RecommendedEstonian Festival Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
[Järvi’s] super-group is not huge but its bright clarity, with violins antiphonally placed, does not preclude the plumbing of depths both physical and emotional…This must be one of the finer... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th January 2018
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 & Symphony No. 11
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
I’d put this Fourth at the top of my pile for sheer belligerence and daring...this is a must-hear album and no mistake – and the Fourth is as good as it gets. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Special offer. Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, Denissov: Cello Sonatas
Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello), Jonas Vitaud (piano)
The disc opens with a performance of Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata which, if neither the weightiest nor the most brilliant on disc, yields to no one in pure musicality. Julien-Laferrière has a... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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Morton keeps the Tchaikovsky rhythmically lithe and buoyant...emphasising the composer's neo-classical sensibility in emulation of his beloved Mozart. The feather-light waltz dances exuberantly,... — More…
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Complete Songs Volume 1
Victoria Evtodieva (soprano), Natalia Biryukova (mezzo-soprano), Fyodor Kuznetsov (bass), Mikhail Lukonin (baritone), Yuri Serov (piano)
Here are two CDs dedicated to some of the finest and most under-recorded song repertoire of the 20th century. Yury Serov is the presiding spirit; his sharply characterised piano playing radiating... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2002, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 - Balakirev: Islamey
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Kurt Sanderling, Kirill Kondrashin
The way we hurtle towards the roaring declamation of the DSCH monogram in the central climax is wonderfully defiant. — More…
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Krzysztof Urbański
There’s not the red-raw playing of corrosive brass of Kirill Kondrashin’s Moscow Philharmonic (on Melodiya’s indispensable set) but the Hamburgers still generate plenty of excitement…Urbanski’s... — More…
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony Op. 73a & Op. 83a (arr. Barshai)
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Joshua Weilerstein
Weilerstein and the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne deliver strongly characterised performances of both works. I particularly admire Weilerstein’s incisive rhythmic control, heard at its most... — More…
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 & Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok
Tatyana Melnychenko (soprano), Plamena Mangova (piano), Natalia Prischepenko (violin) & Sebastian Klinger (cello)
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