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Harmonia Mundi - up to 30% off, Shostakovich (composer)
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues for piano (24), Op. 87
RecommendedAlexander Melnikov (piano)
Melnikov unquestionably gives an impression of freshness and daring, as if he's discovering the music for the first time...Certainly one's bound to feel, listening to such superb playing, that... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Instrumental Award Winner
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Piano Concertos
Alexander Melnikov (piano), with Isabelle Faust (violin), with Jeroen Berwaerts (trumpet)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Teodor Currentzis
his lightning switches of tempo and mood in the fast movement outdo most competitors for bizarrerie...Melnikov includes a searing, thrilling account of Shostakovich's late Violin Sonata, Op.... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2012, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, Orchestral Choice
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Melnikov unquestionably gives an impression of freshness and daring, as if he's discovering the music for the first time...Certainly one's bound to feel, listening to such superb playing, that... — More…
Awards:
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Instrumental Award Winner
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Special offer. 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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, Chamber Choice
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 & Cello Sonata
Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Pascal Rophé
[Bertrand] wears the piece lightly, dancing rather than carving through it, with a silvery line that can be ghostly or piercing but never gruff…her bright, neat staccato is effective even if... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2013, Editor's Choice
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This is a distinctly beautiful voice, with some power but no undue showiness, an often crystalline top, good diction and expressive intelligence. — More…
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Vivid, profoundly intelligent accounts of six of Shostakovich's Quartets. The Jerusalems prove eloquent exponents of these works' tragic intensity and bittersweet lyricism. — More…
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No other ensemble in my experience - not even the trios headed by Sviatoslav Richter or the composer himself - captures this despairing sense of being overwhelmed by expressive needs as powerfully... — More…
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