Classical Music

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Disc of the Month - BBC Music Magazine June 2008 'There are several outstanding versions of Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto available (from Han-Na Chang and the work's dedicatee Rostropovich on EMI, and from Yo-Yo Ma on Sony, to name but a few), yet this latest warmly recorded release from German cellist Daniel Muller-Schott must rank amongst the finest...A performance dazzling in its virtuosity which generates all the necessary cumulative tension...Such is the conviction with which soloist and conductor project every note that one is immediately drawn into the music's dark and brooding atmosphere.' Erik Levi.

Fedoseyev/Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra.

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DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH St. Petersburg Philharmonic ORchestra/Yuri Temirkanov. DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 "Leningrad".

This newest volume from Delos features many of the performers who have gained global acclaim for the previous installments: Marianna Tarassova, Konstantin Pluzhnikov and Fyodor Kuznetsov. Famous Cycles Five contains the 'From Jewish Folk Poetry' series and 'Suite to Words by Michelangelo Buonarroti' and illustrates the evocative and moving themes that would impact the composer all his life: suffering, parting and loss. This critical newest installment, like the previous offerings, will be the focus of a major global publicity and marketing campaign.

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Review Examples: (5th):"However committed you are to any other interpretation, his demands to be heard."(Gramophone);(6th/14th): BBC Music Magazine Disc of the Month Nov.2014. (8th): Mravinsky's live recording of the Eighth of capital importance and demands to be heard: the Leningrad audience is struck dumb by it." (Gramophone). (10th): deeply moving.... Maxim Shostakovich should be compared with Haitink for noble sobriety" (Gramophone). (11th): "A superb performance with excellent sound makes this a benchmark recording and my top CD choice of the year. Shostakovich fans ignore this release at their peril !" (MusicWeb). (13th): So it's significant this is once again made available, especially in such a memorably intense performance." (Gramophone). (15th) "a superbly vivid Fifteenth, generally hard-driven � la Mravinsky but here far more convincingly poised" (Gramophone)

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Most important, historically, is the Moscow recording of the original 1962 version of Shostakovich's Symphony No.13 (with the bass Vitaly Gromadsky), using Yevtushenko's (pre-censored) text commemorating the massacre of Jews at Babi Yar... Yevtushenko's original ('I feel myself a Jew'), was what the anti-Semitic Soviet government would have no truck with. So it's significant this is once again made available, especially in such a memorably intense performance. (Gramophone)