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Prokofiev: War and Peace (Guerre & Paix)...

Written between 1930 and 1932, The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was one of the most brilliant achievements of Shostakovich's long career. It was also the work that got him into trouble with Stalin. When the Soviet leader attended a performance in Moscow in 1936, almost two years after the opera's ac...

The composer's 1963 recording remains, after 35 years, the preferred account, unequaled in its scope and emotional intensity. It brings together the three soloists for whom the work was written, chosen not only because of their artistry but because they represented three of the nations most deeply s...

Moussorgski - Boris Godounov / Raimondi, Wischnewskaja, Plishka, Gedda, Dubosc, Cowan, Rostropovitch (1989 film)...

Pie Jesu...

Shostakovich's orchestrations for Mussorgsky's Songs & Dances of Death heightens the music's stark, desolate qualities, without shying away from ear-catching instrumental combinations. Galina Vishnevskaya's raw-nerve response to the texts and affinity for the composer's sound world border on the ...

Voices of Living Stereo, Vol. 2: Songs...

Puccini: Turandot...

Eugene Onegin...

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"...