This budget set includes a performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2 that won raves from British reviewers and a Gramophone Award in the late '80s, just a few years after pianist Peter Donohoe won the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Here it is united with Tchaikovsky's other major works for piano and orchestra, the Concerto No. 1, the ...
Mozart was one of the half-dozen composers for whom Richter felt a particular affinity, and these recordings come from Richter's peak as a pianist in the mid-'60s through the early '70s. They have all the qualities of Richter at his best: incredible lightness of touch backed with immense power, a varied and subtle color palette, and an incredible ...
Even if you have the Kondrashin and the Rozhdestvensky complete cycles, even if you have every recording by Mravinsky and every Maxim Shostakovich recording, you'll still have to admit that this complete cycle of the symphonies of Dmitry Shostakovich with Rudolf Barshai conducting the WDR Sinfonieorchester is, far and away, the single greatest ...
Rudolf Barshai's recordings of the complete symphonies of Dmitry Shostakovich with the WDR Sinfonie Orchester Köln from the early '90s have been kicking around the international catalog for years. They had previously been issued as single discs and as a set on Brilliant, the Dutch budget label, and the Seventh has unaccountably been issued here as ...
When it comes to scaring the living heck out of listeners, there's nothing quite like Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13. As a work of socialist realism in music, the Thirteenth is unequaled in its description of life in the USSR in all its fear, horror, terror, and, let us not forget, excruciating agony. In the right performance, the Thirteenth is an ...
As a follow-up to a 2007 release of recordings featuring Mstislav Rostropovich first issued by Westminster in the '50s, Deutsche Grammophon here offers a two-disc set of the Russian cellist performing as part of a trio with pianist Emil Gilels and violinist Leonid Kogan, also recorded for Westminster. Though still young artists at the time these ...
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