DVD Video, Shostakovich (composer)

[Sado] digs unostentatiously deep in both the fluid and monumental aspects of this concert, given to raise funds for the Japanese earthquake and tsunami disaster. Much in the two chosen works... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This Fifth might even be caricatured as vaguely retro...The Leipzig team works hard to invigorate old-school expressive intentions with precise, sometimes glorious playing...The concerto may... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2020 More…

There's plenty of contrast [in the Shchedrin]: the misalliance of the two soloists, who only really come together in the climbing apotheosis; the cello in extreme registers; the piano's toccata... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

With first desk players of exceptional ability, the orchestra plays with exemplary polish and a fine sense of ensemble under their conductor Long Yu…Vengerov brings lustrous singing tone to... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Picture and Sound) More…

The performances are a wonderful showcase for the refined sound of the Gewandhaus Orchestra. Strings are unfailingly rich and burnished, brass have a full-bodied tone and woodwinds often distinguish... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2021 More…

Most successful are young violinist Alena Baeva, who gives a sensitive and appropriately fiery performance of Violin Concerto…all the symphonies are given excellent, sometimes outstanding performances,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…