Amazon.com Widgets

Posts Tagged ‘Vasily Petrenko’

RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 3; Vocalise; Caprice bohémien – Feb 08, 2012

Here’s the first disc in a new deal between EMI Classics and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under its 35-year-old Russian chief, Vasily Petrenko. [...]

International Classical Music Awards celebrate best releases of 2010 – Mar 14, 2011

The winning artists and recordings of the 2011 International Classical Music Awards have been announced. More than 500 recordings were nominated in 20 categories [...]

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No.10 in E minor, Op.93 – Jan 07, 2011

Several months ago here I welcomed enthusiastically a gripping, high-voltage account of Shostakovich’s Symphony No.8 from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and its chief conductor, [...]

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No.8 in C minor, Op.65 – Jul 19, 2010

Written in just over a month in 1943, Shostakovich’s hour-long Eighth Symphony represents a very different response to wartime suffering and catastrophe from the [...]

Gongs aplenty at the 2010 Classical Brits Awards – May 14, 2010

The EMI recording of Verdi’s Messa di Requiem has won the Critics’ Award in the 2010 Classical Brits ceremony as the British event entered [...]