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Shostakovich’s highly distinctive 24 Preludes have proved their popularity in numerous arrangements, but when the composer heard these transcriptions by Dmitry Tsyganov he declared that ‘I forgot they were originally written for piano, so naturally did they sound.’ The set was completed in 2000 by the Russian-born composer Lera Auerbach. The chilling and profound Violin Sonata is a late work that concludes with Shostakovich’s last ever use of passacaglia form.
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“…Sergei Dogadin and Nikolai Tokarev offer a different take on the Violin Sonata, broader than usual in the later movements. We can’t be sure Shostakovich would have approved—he raced through his own oeuvre nervily and at speed—but their music-making is carefully considered rather than maximally intense. The cheerier Preludes are given in Dmitry Tsyganov’s arrangements plus five realised more recently by the Russian-American polymath Lera Auerbach. Where older recordings tended to present Tsyganov’s 19 transcriptions in his own sequence, this one restores the original order of Shostakovich’s Op 34 set.”
David Gutman - Gramophone magazine - March 2018
**** Album Recommended
Sound: 3.5/5
Patrick Szersnovicz - Diapason magazine (France) - March 2018
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