Shostakovich

Classical CD Reviews: Mendelssohn music for Cello and Piano, Neave Trio’s French Moments, Schubert’s Octet, and Nelsons’ Shostakovich

July 17, 2018
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Four new albums: the standouts include the finest Andris Nelsons/BSO Shostakovich collaboration to date and the Neave Trio’s wonderful new French Moments.

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Concert Review: Shostakovich and Gubaidulina at Symphony Hall

March 1, 2017
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This was a stirring, thought-provoking, and, ultimately, moving reading of Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony.

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Dance Review: Revolution in Reverb – Bolshoi Postmodern in HD

February 29, 2016
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Introduced by gigantic moving set-pieces and robots with prison searchlights for eyes, Bolt often looks like poster art.

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Concert Review: BSO’s Andris Nelsons conducts Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff

October 2, 2015
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The BSO had a well-deserved couple of weeks off following their late-summer tour of Europe, and they took some time to regain their sea-legs.

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Classical CD Review: Shostakovich, Prologue to “Orango” and Symphony no. 4/Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

June 20, 2012
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Orango is one of the tantalizing “what might have been’s” of musical history: a biting social commentary on Soviet society on the fifteenth anniversary of the October Revolution, written when Shostakovich was at the height of his musical powers and popularity.

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Classical CD Review: “Sounds of Defiance” (Yevgeny Kutik, violin/Timothy Bozarth/piano)

April 9, 2012
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This recording heralds a serious, probing musician exploring some vital, if unfamiliar, twentieth-century violin repertoire, and, as such, presents a more-than-welcome addition to recent solo violin discography.

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Culture Vulture: BSO’ s Death-drenched Russian program

October 13, 2009
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By Helen Epstein Oct-8-13 Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich Symphony Hall Boston, MA Vasily Petrenko, conductor Audiences as well as composers project their emotions and fantasies onto every piece of art with which they engage, but I think this is particularly true of instrumental music, whose non-verbal, non-visual yet powerfully emotional expressiveness is as open to…

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