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Klaus Mäkelä, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra - Shostakovich Symphonies 4, 5 & 6 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by El Misha at Aug. 14, 2024

Klaus Mäkelä, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra - Shostakovich Symphonies 4, 5 & 6 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96.0 kHz | Time - 02:25:04 | 2.45 GB
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The Finnish conductor exerts control over these musically very different but culturally significant works, revelling in wildness, perfection and joyful intensity

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Klaus Mäkelä, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra - Shostakovich Symphonies 4, 5 & 6 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by El Misha at Aug. 14, 2024

The Finnish conductor exerts control over these musically very different but culturally significant works, revelling in wildness, perfection and joyful intensity

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Quatuor Debussy - Shostakovich: String Quartets (2015) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at April 24, 2018

Quatuor Debussy - Shostakovich: String Quartets (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 69:45 minutes | 1.23 GB
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The Debussy string quartet, French specialist in the Shostakovich quartet’s performance, is continuing the exploration of those master-pieces. With the “Opus” show, created with the Australian contemporary circus company CIRCA, the Debussy String Quartet musicians have taken another look on four of the quartet’s corpus of the Russian master:

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Michail Lifits - Shostakovich: 24 Preludes, Op. 34 & Piano Quintet, Op. 57 (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at May 14, 2017

Michail Lifits - Shostakovich: 24 Preludes, Op. 34 & Piano Quintet, Op. 57 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 72:30 minutes | 1.18 GB
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With his "mature sound, seemingly full of wisdom" (Süddeutsche Zeitung), his sensible, delicately balanced touch, and his interpretive maturity, Michail Lifits casts a spell over audience and press alike.

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London Symphony Orchestra & Gianandrea Noseda - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Oct. 7, 2019

London Symphony Orchestra & Gianandrea Noseda - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 64:38 minutes | 1.17 GB
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Experience the London Symphony Orchestra at full strength as LSO Principal Guest Conductor Gianandrea Noseda continues his survey of Shostakovich with the monumental Fourth Symphony.

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BBC Philharmonic Orchestra & John Storgards - Shostakovich Symphonies Nos. 12 and 15 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Feb. 27, 2024

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra & John Storgards - Shostakovich Symphonies Nos. 12 and 15 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 84;58 minutes | 1,35 GB
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The BBC Philharmonic and its new Chief Conductor, John Storgårds, follow their previous release of Shostakovich’s Eleventh Symphony with this album of Symphonies Nos 12 and 15. Subtitled ‘The Year 1917’, the Twelfth Symphony was a project which Shostakovich had been planning and discussing for two decades – a symphony about Lenin.

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Pacifica Quartet - Shostakovich & Myaskovsky: The Soviet Experience Vol. 1 (2011) [Official Digital Download 24/44] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at May 5, 2017

Pacifica Quartet - Shostakovich & Myaskovsky: The Soviet Experience Vol. 1 (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 116:42 minutes | 1.04 GB
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This is the first installment in the Pacifica Quartet's highly anticipated, four-volume CD survey of the complete Shostakovich string quartets: The Soviet Experience: String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries. The Soviet Experience is the first Shostakovich quartet cycle to include works by other important composers of the Soviet era, adding variety and perspective to the listening experience. The Pacifica Quartet performed the complete Shostakovich cycle to great acclaim in New York and Chicago and at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Ill., during the 2010 2011 season.concept always seems to work musically.

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Vladimir Ashkenazy - Shostakovich: Trios 1 & 2, Viola Sonata (2016) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at May 30, 2017

Vladimir Ashkenazy - Shostakovich: Trios 1 & 2, Viola Sonata (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 71:41 minutes | 1.19 MB
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As a young man in Moscow in the early 1960s Vladimir Ashkenazy was invited by Shostakovich to play a private performance of the Piano Trio No 2 in the composers apartment.

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Riccardo Muti - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 113 Babi Yar (Live) (2020) [24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by shamanicus at Jan. 22, 2020

Riccardo Muti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 113 Babi Yar (Live) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | 1:08:31 | 1.25 Gb
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This is one of Shostakovich's greatest works. It's actually a cantata based on five poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Like Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, the music is linked and the mood of each pieces leads to the next, concluding in a heartbreaking coda. But this work was met with controversy. The poem "Babi Yar," which starts off the symphony, is based on the Nazi massacre of Jews at Babi Yar, Ukraine, during World War II. The work was banned by the politburo, but for the poetry, not the music. This recording is one of the best on the market of this work

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Paul Merkelo - Arutiunian, Weinberg & Shostakovich - Trumpet Concertos (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Oct. 11, 2022

Paul Merkelo - Arutiunian, Weinberg & Shostakovich - Trumpet Concertos (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 61:38 minutes | 2,07 GB
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The trumpet has had many concertos written for it by composers from the Soviet era and beyond. Appealing in its unabashed melodies and colourfully nostalgic feel, Arutiunian’s Trumpet Concerto became popular in the West, while Weinberg’s emotive Trumpet Concerto in B flat major was summed up by Shostakovich as a ‘symphony for trumpet and orchestra’. Shostakovich’s own playful Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 is recorded here with Timofei Dokschizer’s extended trumpet part, bringing it closer to the Baroque ‘double concerto’ model that the composer may initially have intended

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