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    Emerson String Quartet - Shostakovich: The String Quartets (5CD) (2000)

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    Emerson String Quartet - Shostakovich: The String Quartets (5CD) (2000)

    Emerson String Quartet - Shostakovich: The String Quartets (5CD) (2000)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 05:58:30 | 1.5 Gb
    Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog: 463284

    If you like your Shostakovich quartets big, brawny, and a bit brutal, you'll like the Emerson Quartet's Shostakovich quartets. The Allegros are muscular, with sharp attacks, strong sforzandos, and relentless rhythms. The Passacaglias are powerful, with massive sonorities, monumental structures, and inexorable tempos. And the Allegrettos are aggressive, with ironic accents, sarcastic tones, and mordent tempos.

    Boston SO, Andris Nelsons - Dmitri Shostakovich - "Under Stalin's Shadow": Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9; Suite From "Hamlet" (2016)

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    Boston SO, Andris Nelsons - Dmitri Shostakovich - "Under Stalin's Shadow": Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9; Suite From "Hamlet" (2016)

    Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9; Suite From "Hamlet" (2016)
    Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, conductor

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 624 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 365 Mb | Artwork included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 479 5201 GH2 | Time: 02:37:35

    Andris Nelsons is the Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and in fall 2015 he was announced as Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, commencing in the 2017/18 season. With both appointments, and in leading a pioneering alliance between these two esteemed institutions, Andris Nelsons is firmly underlined as one of the most renowned and innovative conductors on the international scene today. The goal is a complete Shostakovich cycle on Deutsche Grammophon with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This recording provides a kaleidoscope of Shostakovichs struggle with historical events and political pressures. The pre-war eclectic but accessible and popular 5th, in which he would seem to bow to political pressure, ensured his temporary rehabilitation. The beautiful but dark and gloomy mid-war 8th provoked yet again his fall from favor and instead of providing the political authorities with a triumphant post-war 9th Symphony, Shostakovich wrote a light Haydnesque work which would not be performed until after Stalins death. Selections from the Hamlet Suite, possibly Shostakovichs best film score, rounds out this 2 CD set.

    Boston SO, Andris Nelsons - Dmitri Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphony No. 10; Passacaglia (2015)

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    Boston SO, Andris Nelsons - Dmitri Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphony No. 10; Passacaglia (2015)

    Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10; Passacaglia (2015)
    Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andris Nelsons

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 283 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 151 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 479 5059 GH | Time: 01:04:50

    The "Under Stalin's Shadow" subtitle of this release may be confusing inasmuch as the opening Passacaglia from the opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District dates from before the period when Stalin made Shostakovich's life a living hell, and the main attraction, the Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93, was finished ten months after Stalin's death. Actually the album is the first in a set of three; the others will cover the symphonies No. 5 through No. 9, all written during the period of Stalinist cultural control. But even here the theme is relevant: the pieces are linked by a dark mood that carries overtones (of a feminist sort in the case of the opera) of repression. And the Symphony No. 10 is decidedly some kind of turning point, with repeated (and finally triumphant) assertions of the D-S-C-H motif (D, E flat, C, B natural in the German system) that would appear frequently in the composer's later work.

    Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky - Dmitri Shostakovich, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Trios (1999)

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    Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky - Dmitri Shostakovich, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Trios (1999)

    Dmitri Shostakovich, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Trios (1999)
    Martha Argerich, piano; Gidon Kremer, violin; Mischa Maisky, violoncello

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 330 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 207 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 459 326-2 | Time: 01:19:18

    Wow! This is music making on a cosmic scale. You may hear some jaded critic offer up the following generic comment about this release: "These three players, gathered together for only the second time, naturally can't equal the subtle give and take of more established chamber ensembles." Bull. All three artists rank among the most inspirational and experienced chamber players of our time, and here they set the notes on fire in performances of shattering intensity, improvisational spontaneity, and (in the Tchaikovsky) Herculean grandeur. Argerich's performance of the concerto-like piano part of the Tchaikovsky Trio is especially impressive; she seems to know instinctively when to dominate the proceedings and when to let her partners take over; and the final "Theme and Variations"–a huge movement half an hour in length–seldom has sounded so cohesive and meaningful. As to the Shostakovich, well, what can I say? This is one of the most profoundly moving experiences in music, and how well this trio knows it! The three players find the perfect tempo for the third movement Passacaglia, then build the tragic finale as inexorably as fate itself.

    Alexei Lubimov - Messe Noire: Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Scriabin (2005)

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    Alexei Lubimov - Messe Noire: Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Scriabin (2005)

    Alexei Lubimov - Messe Noire: Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Scriabin (2005)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 205 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 168 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1679, 465 1372 | Time: 01:05:54

    This CD's title, Messe Noire, and its dark cover art may mislead some into thinking this album is filled with evil, forbidden things; but the only selection that suggests the diabolical is Alexander Scriabin's macabre Sonata No. 9, "Black Mass," and it comes at the very end, after Igor Stravinsky's light, neo-Classical Serenade in A, Dmitry Shostakovich's sardonic Sonata No. 2, and Sergey Prokofiev's witty but brutal knuckle-buster, the Sonata No. 7, which all have their dark moments, certainly, but not the same sinister mood found in Scriabin. If pianist Aleksei Lubimov's aim in bringing these Russian masterworks together points to some other unifying idea – perhaps the significance of the piano in these composers' thinking – then some other title might have been more helpful. As it is, though, this album seems most unified in Lubimov's vigorous style of playing, brittle execution, and emphasis on the piano's percussive sonorities, evident in each performance. This spiky approach works best in Prokofiev's sonata, and fairly well in Shostakovich's and Stravinsky's pieces; but it seems too sterile in Scriabin's music, which needs more languor and sensuous writhing than clarity or crispness.

    Andris Nelsons, Boston Symphony Orchestra - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonies, Concertos, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk [19CDs] (2025)

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    Andris Nelsons, Boston Symphony Orchestra - Dmitri Shostakovich:  Symphonies, Concertos, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk [19CDs] (2025)

    Andris Nelsons, Boston Symphony Orchestra - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonies, Concertos, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District [19CDs] (2025)
    XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 4,82 Gb | Total time: 19:27:47 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 486 6649 | Recorded: 2015-2024

    The Boston Symphony Orchestra and their music director Andris Nelsons announce their upcoming album, on which they present their acclaimed Shostakovich symphony cycle to mark the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death in 1975.

    Klaus Mäkelä, Oslo Philharmonic - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 (2024)

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    Klaus Mäkelä, Oslo Philharmonic - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 (2024)

    Klaus Mäkelä, Oslo Philharmonic - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 (2024)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 643 Mb | Total time: 02:25:14 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Decca | # 485 4637 | Recorded: 2022, 2023

    The music of Shostakovich has been core to Klaus and the Oslo Philharmonic’s programming from the start of their relationship, and they first performed Symphony no. 5 in November 2019 - before Klaus took up his tenure as Chief Conductor. A special performance of the 5th symphony in Oslo on 14th August will celebrate the release of this album on Decca Classics. Mäkelä & the Philharmonic will go on to perform the symphonies on tour later this year, including concerts at Salzburg Festival and Musikfest, Berlin.

    Lise de la Salle, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Lawrence Foster - Shostakovich, Liszt, Prokofiev: Piano Concertos (2006)

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    Lise de la Salle, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Lawrence Foster - Shostakovich, Liszt, Prokofiev: Piano Concertos (2006)

    Lise de la Salle, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Lawrence Foster - Shostakovich, Liszt, Prokofiev: Piano Concertos (2006)
    EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 59:28 | 277 MB
    Genre: Classical | Label: Naïve | Catalog: V 5053

    Pianist Lise de la Salle has a big tone and a strong technique, but while she is surely up to the technical requirements of Prokofiev's and Shostakovich's first piano concertos, she seems out of her depth in their interpretive demands. She can pound her way through the muscular rhythms and massive sonorities in the outer movements of Prokofiev's concerto but appears immune to the lyrical poetry in the legato lines of the work's central Andante assai.

    Nicola Benedetti, Bournemouth SO, Kirill Karabits - Dmitri Shostakovich, Alexander Glazunov: Violin Concertos (2016)

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    Nicola Benedetti, Bournemouth SO, Kirill Karabits - Dmitri Shostakovich, Alexander Glazunov: Violin Concertos (2016)

    Dmitri Shostakovich, Alexander Glazunov: Violin Concertos (2016)
    Nicola Benedetti, violin; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Kirill Karabits, conductor

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 281 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 144 Mb | Artwork included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | # 478 8758 | Time: 00:59:03

    This has the look of a career-making recording from Scots violinist Nicola Benedetti, putting her up against difficult repertory that diverges from the crowd-pleasing fare that formed the basis of her career up to this album. It would have been hard to predict just how well she pulls off her task here; few could have heard the profound interpreter of Russian music in the Italia and Silver Violin collections from earlier in the 2010s. The Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 99, is an emotionally thorny work in five movements anchored by a tense passacaglia in the middle. The composer withheld it from publication during the period of renewed Stalinist repression in the late 1940s. It was premiered in 1955 by David Oistrakh, and in endurance and elevated tone even if not quite in lyrical grandeur, Benedetti brings that master to mind. Sample the Stravinskian "Burlesque" finale for a sense of how Benedetti gets outside herself here. The Glazunov Violin Concerto, Op. 82, is a more stable work, rooted in pre-WWI conservatory traditions, and Benedetti's reading is nothing short of letter-perfect.

    Vadim Gluzman, Angela Yoffe - Auerbach, Shostakovich: Ballet for a Lonely Violinist - Music for violin & piano (2006)

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    Vadim Gluzman, Angela Yoffe - Auerbach, Shostakovich: Ballet for a Lonely Violinist - Music for violin & piano (2006)

    Vadim Gluzman, Angela Yoffe - Auerbach, Shostakovich: Ballet for a Lonely Violinist - Music for violin & piano (2006)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 67:16 | 305 MB
    Genre: Classical | Label: BIS| Catalog: BIS-CD-1592

    I read a rave review of Vadim Gluzman in concert, and since I hd never heard of the Ukraine-born, naturalized Israeli violinist, I sought out this CD. The 45-year-old virtuoso is from the Oistrakh-Vengerov mold: intense, large-scaled, and powerful. All his talents are needed in the late, bleak Shostakovich Violin Sonata. The cover art, showing Gluzman dressed in black gazing out over a flat gray landscape typifies the music.

    Keller Quartett, Alexei Lubimov - Alfred Schnittke, Dmitri Shostakovich: Lento (2003)

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    Keller Quartett, Alexei Lubimov - Alfred Schnittke, Dmitri Shostakovich: Lento (2003)

    Keller Quartett, Alexei Lubimov - Alfred Schnittke, Dmitri Shostakovich: Lento (2003)
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 236 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 154 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1755, 461 815-2 | Time: 01:05:00

    Schnittke's Piano Quintet, a creative response to his mother's death, is an austere, haunting work full of grief and tenderness that marks one of his early ventures into polystylistic writing. The opening piano solo is unique, a spare statement of puzzlement in the face of tragedy. It gives way to a waltz, as if recapturing a lost past, then the graceful dance melody literally disintegrates as the strings venture off into other regions, vainly trying to reassemble the theme and failing. At the end of its touching five movements the music's despair is transformed into serene, hard-won acceptance. Shostakovitch's 15th Quartet, his final statement in that form, premiered just months before his death. It's six slow movements are shot through with contemplative sadness and regret. The music is so rich in texture and substance that attention never flags.

    José Serebrier, Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Dmitry Shostakovich: The Golden Age, Op. 22 (2006)

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    José Serebrier, Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Dmitry Shostakovich: The Golden Age, Op. 22 (2006)

    José Serebrier, Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Dmitry Shostakovich: The Golden Age, Op. 22 (2006)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 658 Mb | Total time: 02:23:42 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.570217-18 | Recorded: 2006

    The three full-length ballet scores that Dmitry Shostakovich wrote between 1925 and 1935 remain among his least known works. The Golden Age revolves around the visit of a Soviet football team to a Western city (referred to as 'U-town') at the time of an industrial exhibition, only for its heroic sporting and social endeavours constantly to be undermined by hostile administrators, decadent artistes and corrupt officials. Even before its premiere Shostakovich had prepared a suite, including the famous Polka (Naxos 8.553126), which barely hints at the dissonant harmonies and intricate contrapuntal designs to be found elsewhere in the ballet. This recording is the first to present the work complete with all repeats observed, enabling listeners to assess the ballet in all its exhilarating and, at times, anarchic intensity.

    Vladimir Spivakov - Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1, Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk - Suite (2003)

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    Vladimir Spivakov - Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1, Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk - Suite (2003)

    James Conlon, Gürzenich Orchester Köln, Vladimir Spivakov - Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1, Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk - Suite (2003)
    WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 391 MB | 01:18:43
    Genre: Classical | Label: Capriccio

    James Conlon’s suite from Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk collects various scenes, arias, and orchestral interludes into a musical narrative of the opera’s tragic story. Although the first number is entitled “In the court of the Ismailovs”, the suite actually begins with Katerina’s pre-suicide meditation from the final scene before abruptly moving to the rollicking music of Scene 2’s introduction. Two love duets, “Katerina and Sergei” I & II, frame the great orchestral Passacaglia (from Act 2), followed by the comedic “The Drunkard”, which sets up the “Arrival of the Police”. The suite concludes with “In exile”, which contains the opera’s close.

    Mstislav Rostropovich, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy - Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 & Symphony No. 1 (2011)

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    Mstislav Rostropovich, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy - Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 & Symphony No. 1 (2011)

    Mstislav Rostropovich, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy - Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 & Symphony No. 1 (2011)
    WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 312 MB | 57:16
    Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical

    Sony Classical's Great Performances Series has scored yet another winner with its coupling of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1 and the First Cello Concerto. Previously released individually, the close proximity in the recording dates of these two works (1959 and 1960) makes them a natural choice for a pairing. Continuing in the Philadelphia Orchestra tradition, the performance of the Symphony No. 1 follows the 1928 United States premiere of the work, given by the same orchestra and conducted by Ormandy's predecessor, Leopold Stokowski. Inherited from him is the notably lush sound of Philadelphia's lower strings, which capture the essence of Shostakovich's weighty harmonies.

    Marc-André Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton - Shostakovich, Shchedrin: Piano Concertos (2003)

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    Marc-André Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton - Shostakovich, Shchedrin: Piano Concertos (2003)

    Marc-André Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton - Shostakovich, Shchedrin: Piano Concertos (2003)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 63:13 | 256 MB
    Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog: CDA67425

    The two piano concertos of Shostakovich, though strikingly different from each other, have both become twentieth century classics. The first has long been one of Marc-André Hamelin's 'party pieces.' Hyperion was pleased to have the opportunity to pair him with Andrew Litton, a conductor who knows these works backwards and forwards (he has even recorded the second concerto as pianist). The resulting performances have a vitality and flair which places them amongst the greatest ever put to disc. The Shchedrin concerto, though less well-known, is no less enjoyable. There is brilliance in both the piano writing and the orchestration and the surprise addition of a jazz trio in the finale - including vibraphone and drum kit - is sure to bring the house down.