Lebrecht Weekly – Shostakovich, Martinu: Second cello concertos (Bis)
The second concerto for cello by Dmitri Shostakovich is the least ingratiating of the six he wrote, two for each major instrument. Opening with a…
Browsing: Shostakovich
Les Saisons Russes de Montréal: Fifth Edition
Saisons Russes de Montréal celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. The festival was founded by two pianists, Jean-Fabien Schneider and Irina Krasnyanskaya, the latter of…
Lebrecht Weekly – Dmitri Shostakovich: First Symphony (Pentatone)
Great recordings are easy to review. Likewise bad ones. About 99.5 percent of all releases fall somewhere in between. Of these, four in five quickly…
This Week in Montreal: March 6 to 12 : Another Brick In The Wall, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and the Violons du Roy
Monday, March 6 Two quartets at Pro musica: Created in the seventies at Prague Conservatory, the Pražák Quartet has become one of the most…
Lebrecht Weekly – Boris Giltburg Plays Shostakovich
What is remarkable about both piano concertos is that neither was intended for virtuoso performers. Shostakovich wrote the first in 1933 for himself to play…
Lebrecht Weekly – Shostakovich plays Shostakovich (Praga Digitals)
If the print on this review goes blurry on your screen it’s because I’m still rubbing my eyes at the cast list on this astonishing…
Daily News Roundup: 10 November 2016
A concert recorded in Geneva in September will be broadcast on the radio today Thursday November 10 at 8 p.m on ICI Musique and on…
Lebrecht Weekly – Schoenberg and Shostakovich (CSO.Resound)
Two composers in despair, reaching deep into their souls. Arnold Schoenberg, a penniless refugee in Los Angeles in 1938, was commissioned by a liberal temple…
Lebrecht Weekly – Ustvolskaya, Silvestrov & Kancheli: Works for Piano & Orchestra
The late Soviet system created damaging monopolies in the arts as much as they did in state industry. The big brands – Shostakovich, Khachaturian –…
Daily News Roundup: 19 July 2016
Today’s Daily News Roundup asks whether Classical music is as calming as we are lead to believe. Plus a new appointment to the Philadelphia Orchestra, and…
