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Recorded live at the Gwandhaus in 2018, this excellent program from the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and their conductor Andris Nelsons features Tchaikovsky?s Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, and 6, as well as works by Mozart,…

Melodiya releases a new album of Dmitry Masleev, the winner of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition. The program includes concertos by Shostakovich, Tsfasman and Kapustin. ?An unconditional discovery, a brilliant…

Established in Moscow in 1945, and still performing today, the Borodin Quartet sustains a distinctive tradition in the interpretation of Russian chamber music. Over the decades its members ? all trained at the Moscow…

Recorded live at the Gwandhaus in 2018, this excellent program from the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and their conductor Andris Nelsons features Tchaikovsky?s Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, and 6, as well as works by Mozart,…

Mieczyslaw Weinberg's Trumpet Concerto op. 94 was composed in his most productive creative phase and premiered in Moscow on 6 January 1968. Shostakovich once described it as a "symphony for trumpet and orchestra" - no…

The first CD by the philharmonie zuidnederland was of works by Wagner and Tchaikovksy, under their chief conductor Dmitri Liss; this second CD promises to be even more spectacular. The principal work, Shostakovich?s…

With its super-budget-priced boxes of Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich among many others, Brilliant Classics cornered the market in definitive composer editions long before other…

This compilation brings together popular orchestral works and ballet music by Tchaikovsky. Dmitrij Kitajenko and the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, of which he has been Honorary Conductor since 2009, have recorded the…

Mariss Jansons leads the Berliner Philharmoniker in six performances featuring works by Strauss, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich. The concerts include: 'Waldbühne 1994 - Night of Dances and Rhapsodies', 'The…

Abstract instrumental works (that is to say, those which had no ?programme? in ?Socialist Realism?.) were considered undesirable or ? as in the case of chamber music ? tainted by Western decadence. Shostakovich had won…

Eyewitness accounts and readings from Russian authors and historians, from Pushkin to Solzhenitsyn, enhance this fascinating account, as well as music taken from a wide range of Russian composers including Glinka,…

Mieczyslaw Weinberg's Trumpet Concerto op. 94 was composed in his most productive creative phase and premiered in Moscow on 6 January 1968. Shostakovich once described it as a "symphony for trumpet and orchestra" - no…

Collection of Russian operas including works by Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Shostakovich. The operas are: 'Boris Godunov', 'Eugene Onegin', 'Pique Dame', 'The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh' and…

Fascinated by the viola, which he chose at the age of eleven after learning the violin for six years, Amihai loves the sound of his instrument, which is so close to the human voice. He also likes the ambivalence of its…

Hear the LSO at full strength as Gianandrea Noseda continues his survey of Shostakovich with the monumental Fourth Symphony. Shostakovich at one point thought his Fourth Symphony was the best thing he?d ever written.…

The winner of the very first Queen Elisabeth Competition for cellists in Brussels in 2017, Victor Julien-Laferriere also received the Victoire de la Musique Classique in 2018 in the category ?Soloist of the Year?. His…

Alban Gerhardt writes admiringly of Rostropovich and the legacy of marvellous works he inspired, but on the evidence of these extraordinary accounts of two of them, he need fear no comparisons with his great Russian…