Browse: Russian National Orchestra Shostakovich (series)

Vladimir Jurowski is… surely the most rounded Shostakovich interpreter to have emerged for many years, holding the balance between brooding song and headlong dance in perfect equilibrium. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

With its epic scale and vivid cinematographic imagery, Shostakovich's Eleventh particularly benefits from the extra adrenalin that flows from a live performance. …Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Mikhail Pletnev delivers a strongly compelling and often illuminating interpretation of Shostakovich's final symphony. Whereas most conductors opt merely for the sardonic and satirical in the... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

…there's no doubt that a magisterial hand is at work, steadily shaping long-term sequences and arriving decisively at apocalyptic climaxes. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, 3 out of 5 stars More…