Packaged in bright USSR crimson, this 27-disc set contains the nearly all the great instrumental works by Dmitry Shostakovich: his 15 symphonies, 15 string quartets, and 6 concertos, plus his sonatas for violin, viola, cello, and piano, plus suites from his two best-known film scores and from all three of his ballet scores, plus both his jazz ...
Nearly nonexistent in the nineteenth century, the repertoire of music for viola and orchestra swelled in the twentieth century. Yet by the early twenty first century, very few of these works have managed to attract the attention of the general classical audience. While Bartók's, Hindemith's, and Walton's concertos are sometimes heard in the ...
Try not to think of it as a miscellaneous collection of performances of random chamber music works by Shostakovich; try to think of it as a set of almost all of Shostakovich's chamber works for piano and strings coupled with his two piano sonatas. Don't mind that there are different pianists for each disc, with the strong-backed Edward Auer taking ...
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