All Shostakovich articles
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Review
Lech Antonio Uszynski: Progetto Gibson
Vivid portrait of a Stradivari viola demonstrates its special qualities
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Review
Concert review: Quatuor Danel
Peter Quantrill waxes lyrical about the recital at Wigmore Hall, London, on 10 December 2019
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Review
Victor Julien-Laferrière: Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, Denisov
Victor Julien-Laferrière: Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, Denisov The Strad Issue: February 2020 Description: Queen Elisabeth winner is completely at home in Russian cello music Musicians: Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello) Jonas Vitaud (piano) Works: Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor op.40. Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G minor ...
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Review
Mischa Maisky, Lily Maisky: 20th-Century Classics
A father–daughter combination achieves some almost miraculous musical moments
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Pavel Haas Quartet: Shostakovich
A quartet in its element in the intense, highly charged music of Shostakovich
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Katherine Jenkinson, Nicholas Holland: Shostakovich
An intriguing pairing of dramatic cello sonatas, new and established
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Blogs
Alban Gerhardt on playing the Britten and Shostakovich sonatas side by side
Their composers may have been friends but these two 20th-century masterpieces, written 30 very eventful years apart, could hardly be more different
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Leonard Elschenbroich, Alexei Grynyuk: Beethoven
Cellist brings a marvellous spontaneity to Beethoven’s sonatas
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Feature
Julia Fischer and Vadim Gluzman on Shostakovich's violin sonata
Fifty years ago, David Oistrakh premiered Shostakovich’s violin sonata. Here Andrew Morris discusses the work with Julia Fischer and Vadim Gluzman
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Review
Matthew Lipman; Henry Kramer: Bowen, Schumann, Knox, Shostakovich and Waxman
An impressive, lovingly presented recital of viola music
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Review
Belcea Quartet: Shostakovich String Quartet no.3, Piano Quintet
A non-Russian approach to Shostakovich that’s in a class of its own
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Video
Newly discovered viola impromptu by Shostakovich performed by Paul Neubauer
A previously unknown work by Dmitri Shostakovich, this viola impromptu was discovered in Moscow’s central archive last year and revealed on the composer’s birthday in September . In this video, violist Paul Neubauer and pianist Wu Han perform the piece at Music@Menlo,
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Review
Mats Lidström: Rigoletto Fantasy, Shostakovich Cello Concerto no.1
Mats Lidström (cello), Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra/Vladimir Ashkenazy
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Review
Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Inspiration
Dynamic debut recording from significant young British cellist
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Review
Eldbjørg Hemsing: Concertos by Borgström and Shostakovich
BORGSTRÖM Violin Concerto in G major op.25, SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto no.1 in A minor op.77
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Video
Johannes Moser performs Shostakovich Cello Sonata with Andrei Korobeinikov
German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser performs the second movement of Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata in D minor with pianist Andrei Korobeinikov. The two are currently on a Canadian recital tour
