[ Decca Budget Boxes / 5 CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 1 July 2006
Shostakovich wrote music in all genres but it is for the 15 Symphonies and 15 String Quartets that he is held in the highest esteem and for which he produced some of his greatest works
CD 1
Two Fables of Krylov, op.4
Three Romances on Poems by Pushkin, op.46a
Six Romances on Verses by Raleigh, Burns and Shakespeare, op.62/140
From Jewish Folk Poetry, op.79a
CD 2
Six Romances on Texts by Japanese Poets, op.21
Six Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva, op.143a
Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti, op.145a
CD 3
Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin, op.146
Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok, op.127
Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti
CD 4 & 5
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk