Alina Ibragimova & Vladimir Jurowski record Shostakovich’s two Violin Concertos [Hyperion]

No need to reinvent Shostakovich as a samizdat cryptographer to see these works in a sympathetic, nonconformist light – but then authenticity in Shostakovich is always a vexed issue. Politics apart, his Communist-era friends and colleagues were too talented a group to produce carbon copies of each other’s interpretations. The present enterprise, not Soviet of course, …

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