MYASKOVSKY : Symphony Nr. 21 • KABALEVSKY : Symphony Nr. 2 • SHOSTAKOVICH : Incidental Music To 'Hamlet' (Measham-Herrmann) (1975) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Nikolay Myaskovsky
1    Symphony No.21, Op.51 [16:09]
Conductor – David Measham
Orchestra – The New Philharmonia Orchestra

Dmitry Kabalevsky
2-4    Symphony No.2, Op.19 [23:51]
Conductor – David Measham
Orchestra – The New Philharmonia Orchestra

Dmitry Shostakovich
5-10    Incidental Music To The Film 'Hamlet', From Op.116a [21:28]
Conductor – Bernard Herrmann
Orchestra – The National Philharmonic Orchestra

NEMANJA RADULOVIC - Journey East (2014) FLAC (tracks), lossless

Serbian violinist Nemanja Radulovic, long flying hair and all, evokes the spirit and sound of the central European violinists of a hundred years ago. On this collection of pieces, mostly associated with Slavic lands (John Williams' Theme from Schindler's List makes a fascinating exception), he takes new chances, and they pay off big time. Radulovic has developed a vigorously rhythmic style that can build up a good deal of momentum in a piece like the opening Hungarian Dance No. 1 of Brahms, and he effectively alternates these with pieces that lay on the sentiment. What's new here is that Radulovic has reached out and gotten the music he needs from other genres, from unusual sources, and from a variety of ensembles. There are several arrangements by Yvan Cassar that make a wonderful effect. Sample the violin-and-small ensemble version of Khachaturian's Sabre Dance (track 4) for a bit of pure excitement that someone might have come up with in an old Viennese cafe in 1900, but probably not since then. Radulovic draws on some Serbian film soundtracks and on original compositions. He employs not only his usual backing group Les Trilles du Diable, but also a slightly larger string group called Double Sens and, on several tracks, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. The musicians back up Radulovic's fiery effects, and the result is perhaps the most colorful and exciting exotic violin recitals in many years. Bravo! by James Manheim
Tracklist :
Hungarian Dance
Composed By – Johannes Brahms
1    No. 1 in G minor    3:12
2    Songs My Mother Taught Me 3:17
Composed By – Antonín Dvořák
Swan Lake
Composed By – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
3    Russian Dance    4:20
Gayaneh
Composed By – Aram Khatchaturian
4    Sabre Dance    2:56
5    Vatra Suze 3:16
Composed By – Sonia Kalajic
6    Pašona Kolo 2:42
Traditional
Masquerade
Composed By – Aram Khatchaturian
7    Nocturne    3:38
Gadfly Suite
Composed By – Dmitri Shostakovich
8    Romance    4:15
Love For Three Oranges Suite
Composed By – Sergei Prokofiev
9    March    1:34
10    Schindler's List: Theme 3:50
Composed By – John Williams
11    Niška Banja 2:20
Traditional
12    Petrijin Venac: Theme 4:18
Composed By – Zoran Simjanović
13    Ojo Je Muški Svet 4:19
Composed By – Dejan "Leopold" Sparavalo, Emir Kusturica
14    Csárdás 4:45
Composed By – Vittorio Monti
15    Zajdi, Zajdi, Jasno Sonce 5:37
Composed By – Aleksandar Sarijevski
Credits :
Cimbalom – Ludovit Kovac
Conductor – Michail Jurowski
Ensemble – Double Sens, Les Trilles Du Diable
Orchestra – Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Percussion – Nicolas Montazaud
Piano – Laure Favre-Kahn
Technician [Piano] – Vincent Guyon
Violin – Nemanja Radulović
Vocals – Ksenija Milošević

SHOSTAKOVICH - The Symphonies (Vladimir Ashkenazy) 12CD / FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

CD1
Symphony No.1 In F Minor, Op.10    
Symphony No.6 In B Minor, Op.54

CD2
Festive Overture, Op.96    5:53
October, Op. 131 - Symphonic Poem    12:38
Symphony No.2 In B Major, Op.14 - "To October"    17:04
The Song Of The Forests, Op.81

CD3
Symphony No.12 In D Minor, Op.112 "The Year 1917"
Symphony No.3 In E Flat Major, Op.20 - "The First Of May"

CD4
Symphony No. 4 In C Minor, Op. 43

CD5
Symphony No.5 In D Minor, Op.47
Five Fragments, Op.42

CD6
Shostakovich's Broadcast From Besieged Leningrad In 1941
Symphony No.7 In C Major, Op.60 "Leningrad"

CD7
Funeral & Triumphal Prelude, Op.130    2:44
Symphony No.8 In C Minor, Op.65
Novorossiisk Chimes

CD8
Chamber Symphony, Op.110a
Symphony No.10 In E Minor, Op.93

CD9
Symphony No. 11 In G Minor, Op. 103 "The Year 1905"

CD10
Symphony No.13 In B Fla tMinor, Op.113"Babi Yar"

CD11
Symphony No.14, Op.135

CD12
Symphony No. 9 In E Flat Major, Op. 70
Symphony No.15 In A Major, Op.141

Credits :
Baritone Vocals – Sergei Koptchak (pistas: CD 10, CD 11)
Bass Vocals – Nikita Storojev (pistas: 2-4, 2-5, 2-6, 2-7, 2-8, 2-9, 2-10)
Choir – New London Children's Choir (pistas: 2-4, 2-5, 2-6, 2-7, 2-8, 2-9, 2-10), The Bach Choir (pistas: 3-5, 3-6, 3-7, 3-8)
Chorus – Brighton Festival Chorus (pistas: 2-4, 2-5, 2-6, 2-7, 2-8, 2-9, 2-10), Nikikai Chorus Group (pistas: CD 10)
Chorus Master – Laszlo Heltay (pistas: 2-4, 2-5, 2-6, 2-7, 2-8, 2-9, 2-10)
Music Director – Sir David Willcocks (pistas: 3-5, 3-6, 3-7, 3-8), Ronald Corp (pistas: 2-4, 2-5, 2-6, 2-7, 2-8, 2-9, 2-10)
Orchestra – NHK Symphony Orchestra (pistas: 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 4-5, 10-1, 10-2, 10-3, 10-4, 10-5, 11-1, 11-2, 11-3, 11-4, 11-5, 11-6, 11-7, 11-8, 11-9, 11-10, 11-11), St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (pistas: 6-2,6-3,6-4,6-5, 9-1, 9-2, 9-3, 9-4), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Soprano Vocals – Joan Rodgers (pistas: CD11)
Tenor Vocals – Mikhail Kotliarov (pistas: 2-4, 2-5, 2-6, 2-7, 2-8, 2-9, 2-10)

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH : String Quartets Nos. 1, 2 & 4 (Borodin Quartet) (1997) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH : String Quartets Nos. 5, 6 & 7 (Borodin Quartet) (1997) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH : String Quartets Nos. 8, 9 & 10 (Borodin Quartet) (1997) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH : String Quartets Nos. 11, 12 & 13 (Borodin Quartet) (1997) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH : String Quartets Nos. 14 & 15 (Borodin Quartet) (1997) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH : String Quartets No. 3; Two Pieces for String Octet; Piano Quintet (Richter-Borodin Quartet) (1997) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

MARTHA ARGERICH - Martha Argerich Edition : Concertos (2011) 4CD / FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Martha Argerich Edition: Concertos is one of several box sets issued in 2011 in honor of her 70th birthday. These four discs gather ten complete concertos recorded between 1997 and 2009 for EMI. As an artist as well-known for her loyalty to particular repertoire and particular musicians, most of these works have been recorded by Argerich multiple times. Prokofiev's Concerto No. 3, one of the first concertos she ever recorded, is here in a 1997 performance with conductor Charles Dutoit, one of her best collaborators. The two recorded both Chopin concertos the following year, also included here. Others of Argerich's most frequent collaborators are found on Beethoven's Triple Concerto: Renaud Capuçon, Mischa Maisky, and Alexandre Rabinovitch. The recordings of fellow pianist Mikhail Pletnev's Fantasia elvetica and of Falla's Noches en los jardines de España come from her Lugano Festival, an annual event founded in 2002 where Argerich gathers friends -- her familiar collaborators and new, promising, young musicians -- for music-making. The collection unfortunately does not include Ravel's Concerto in G, the other concerto typically noted as one of Argerich's best interpretations. Yet, it should very well satisfy those who want to get to know Argerich's work in the concerto repertoire as a mature musician at the height of her talent. by Patsy Morita   

SHOSTAKOVICH - String Quartets 1-13 [Borodin Quartet] 4CD / 2003

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH [1906-1975] 

 String Quartets 1-13 [Borodin Quartet] 

2003 / CHANDOS / 4CD 

O Púbis da Rosa

SHOSTAKOVICH: Michelangelo Verses; Captain Lebyadkin Verses [Ashkenazy/Fischer-Dieskau] London

SHOSTAKOVICH: Michelangelo Verses; Captain Lebyadkin Verses

 [Ashkenazy-Fischer-Dieskau]

 [1993] London / CBR320 / scans

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O Púbis da Rosa

SHOSTAKOVICH : 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87 (Vladimir Ashkenazy) 2CD (1999) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

When Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich composed this set in the early 50's for pianist Taitian Nikolaeva, fugues weren't particularly "in," apparently frowned upon by authorities concerned with the degree of "formality" in orchestral works. Nikolaeva recorded a particularly dense, diffuse version of the set, arguably a demonstration of her own declining technique rather than a livelier version more closely intended by Shotakovich. In 1992, Shostakovich's "Op. 87" registered more prominently in the eyes and ears of listeners when jazz pianist Keith Jarrett -- pursuing a notably similar career as contemporary pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy with a bit more distinction (or at least commercial notice) -- zipped through the set in 2:15:20. Some dissenters complained that Jarrett's treatment was whimsically light, so perhaps in some sense Ashkenazy's version may be a kind of response to Jarrett. Whatever the case, Ashkenazy could surely summon a touch more passion out of some of the more ponderous, meditative moments in this marathon of otherwise utterly transportive magic. He comes across as detached, almost indifferent, uninvolved in the sweetly diatonic No. 1, robotically remembering to hit the notes on time without any ambient responsibility or ear for rhythm. No. 18 in F minor, similarly, could be a heart-wrencher, a record to play at the wake of a dearly departed, but here's he's little more than garden-variety, although momentarily playful. But Ashkenazy's very good with the contrasting textures of Prelude of No. 19 in E-flat Major. His speedy lines and breezy passes over the keys in the Prelude of No. 2 in A minor combine to give it a high-rise, big-city-on-the water sense of strangeness and ease. Crystal notes in the memory-soaked No. 4 in E Minor accents its slightly bittersweet underpinnings, and it is this atmosphere that prevails above all in this intriguing modern recording. Becky Byrkit

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)

24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87

Piano, Performer – Vladimir Ashkenazy