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Igor Stravinsky - Complete Music for Violin & Piano (feat violin: Anthony Marwood, piano: Thomas AdĂ -

Igor Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto was premiered in 1931 by Samuel Dushkin, and given the rapport they’d established, Stravinsky was eager to cash-in on their new partnership â€" literally â€" by devising recitals of his music they could play together without the expense and complication of an orchestra and conductor, allowing...

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphonies Nos 2 & 11 (Valery Gergiev; Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus) -

This disc, the second in Valery Gergiev and his Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra’s series of Shostakovich pairings, brilliantly balances two opposing symphonies. The experimental, impish and thoroughly odd second symphony was composed to mark the 10th anniversary of the 1917 Russian revolution, while the expansive and hugely intricate 11th marries tonality...

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