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'Performances of astonishing precision and
refinement... Bashmet's orchestra... held the audience transfixed.'
The Independent
'This is a terrific example of ensemble string-playing.
The 18 players of Yuri Bashmet's Moscow Soloists bring corporate vigour, subtlety
and virtuosity to bear on a trio of diverse Soviet chamber symphonies.
The only one of these likely to be familiar is the string-orchestra expansion
of Shostakovich's best-known string quartet, the Eighth, by Rudolf Barshai. And
its transformation has never been so vindicated as here, where its tragedy takes
on a more universal mien. The bite of the playing and the exploitation of the
music's gut-wrenching emotion grip the ear from beginning to end.'
Daily Telegraph
'They did well, demonstrating impressive unanimity and among
a vast dynamic and tonal armoury a wondrously controlled pianissimo... Tchaikovsky's
Serenade sounded, in these players' capable hands,
quite new and lovely.'
The Times
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