Download, Shostakovich (composer)

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... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Powerful and beautifully crafted, this recording – the first from the relationship between DG and the Boston Symphony under Nelsons – is a hugely impressive sign of just what this ensemble/maestro... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2015 More…

Mäkelä has achieved something very special here, bringing freshness to music that has been recorded many times and by many of the conducting greats...The players of the Oslo Philharmonic respond... — Matthew Ash, Presto Music, 16th August 2024 More…

The first surprise of this album – which you will absolutely want to hear – is the subtlety and intimacy of Levit’s playing…Only a handful of pianists have scaled the heights of Stevenson’s... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Isserlis and his long-term colleague Olli Mustonen make a compelling case for Kabalevsky’s Cello Sonata, finding such expressive drama that for once I was not distracted by the Sonata’s obvious... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Tenth is a symphony into which many have been tempted to read parallels with Shostakovich's life...The refreshing thing is that Petrenko treats it as a great symphony in its own right...All... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

They make interpretive decisions that are unexpected but none the less to me felt deeply initiative and this passage showcases the gorgeous cello line that has extraordinary shaping in how you... — Building a Library, 21st January 2023 More…

Nelsons keeps a firm grip on the unfolding of the drama [in the 11th]. And here, as in the Fourth, his Boston Symphony Orchestra responds with supreme virtuosity from every section. Whether... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, 5 out of 5 stars/4 out of 5 stars More…

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... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2016 More…

Goerne and the equally probing Daniil Trifonov – a true conversational partner – seem to conceive the whole programme as a brooding mega-cycle on the human condition. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2022 More…