Since you are interested in Symphonies No. 3 & 15, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
SHOSTAKOVICH
Preludes and Fugues (arr. for Wind Quintet) Calefax [ MDG / CD - released 16/Feb/2004 ] "Listening pleasure from the first to the last second, musical perfection in every phrase!" (FonoForum). Already more than once the Calefax Reed Quintet has astonished the music world with its interpretation of a compositional cycle of intricate... |
PERGOLESI
Stabat Mater / Salve Regina in F minor Florilegium with Elin Manahan Thomas (sop) & Robin Blaze (counter-tenor) [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/May/2010 ] "This new Pergolesi Stabat Mater excels in the clarity of Florilegium's strings" (Choral & Song Recording of the Month BBC Music July 2010) |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphonies 2 & 12 National Ukrainian Choir / Beethoven orchester Bonn / Roman Kofman [ MDG Gold / CD - released 19/Apr/2008 ] "If any Conductor and his Orchestra can make music out of Shostakovich's largely unpopular 12th symphony, without bombast, it would be this release on MDG under Roman Kofman and the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn. The percussion section as always with this... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No.13 'Babi Yar' op. 113 Taras Shtonda (bass) / Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno / Beethoven Orchester Bonn / Roman Kofman (cond) [ MDG SACD / SACD - released 18/Mar/2007 ] Dmitri Shostakovich was one of Russia's great composers--while rooted in the 19th-century classical epoch, he had a very forward-looking, modernist mindset. This audio DVD features Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony performed by the Beethoven Orchester... |