Walton Shostakovich
There is a commitment and intensity to the playing on this disc that is, in my view, a real step forward from the Albion Quartet’s previous series of Dvorak quartets released over the last couple of years…
Shostakovich – Symphony No. 7
It is salutary to listen now to this symphony, written at the height of WW II as the appalling toll of the Nazi siege of Leningrad became clear; salutary because the recording appears as Stalin’s successor psychopath, Putin, is unleashing similar barbaric horrors on the cities of Ukraine…