Hyperion Records | Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues

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Recording details: September 1991
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Arthur Johnson
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: February 1991
Total duration: 162 minutes 2 seconds

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'The record that has given me greater pleasure than any other this year' (The Sunday Times)

'A performing document of inestimable importance ... Hyperion should be congratulated for masterminding this important issue' (CDReview)

'The recording is clear and atmospheric, and the playing has power, grandeur, character, intellectual clarity and unforced intensity' (Gramophone)

'This magnificent set courageously undertaken by Hyperion, a timely document of an interpretation fashioned from Nikolayeva's collaboration with the composer at the time of composition' (BBC Music Magazine Top 1000 CDs Guide)

'Performances which are at once gripping through their pianistic brilliancs and illuminating through their unflinching perception. Amazing' (Classic CD)

'Where this work is concerned, as in her playing of much else, she has rightly been called his High Priestess' (Piano)

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Preludes & Fugues

Tatiana Nikolayeva (piano)

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		24 Preludes and Fugues, Op 87
CD1	1	No 01 in C major. Movement 1: Prelude [2'28]
	2	No 01 in C major. Movement 2: Fugue [2'27]
	3	No 02 in A minor. Movement 1: Prelude [0'56]
	4	No 02 in A minor. Movement 2: Fugue [1'21]
	5	No 03 in G major. Movement 1: Prelude [1'56]
	6	No 03 in G major. Movement 2: Fugue [2'07]
	7	No 04 in E minor. Movement 1: Prelude [3'11]
	8	No 04 in E minor. Movement 2: Fugue [5'40]
	9	No 05 in D major. Movement 1: Prelude [1'44]
	10	No 05 in D major. Movement 2: Fugue [1'55]
	11	No 06 in B minor. Movement 1: Prelude [2'20]
	12	No 06 in B minor. Movement 2: Fugue [6'52]
	13	No 07 in A major. Movement 1: Prelude [1'19]
	14	No 07 in A major. Movement 2: Fugue [2'07]
	15	No 08 in F sharp minor. Movement 1: Prelude [1'15]
	16	No 08 in F sharp minor. Movement 2: Fugue [7'21]
	17	No 09 in E major. Movement 1: Prelude [2'33]
	18	No 09 in E major. Movement 2: Fugue [1'37]
	19	No 10 in C sharp minor. Movement 1: Prelude [1'46]
	20	No 10 in C sharp minor. Movement 2: Fugue [4'55]
CD2	1	No 11 in B major. Movement 1: Prelude [1'24]
	2	No 11 in B major. Movement 2: Fugue [2'31]
	3	No 12 in G sharp minor. Movement 1: Prelude [5'13]
	4	No 12 in G sharp minor. Movement 2: Fugue [3'50]
	5	No 13 in F sharp major. Movement 1: Prelude [2'28]
	6	No 13 in F sharp major. Movement 2: Fugue [7'34]
	7	No 14 in E flat minor. Movement 1: Prelude [4'45]
	8	No 14 in E flat minor. Movement 2: Fugue [2'31]
	9	No 15 in D flat major. Movement 1: Prelude [3'13]
	10	No 15 in D flat major. Movement 2: Fugue [1'55]
	11	No 16 in B flat minor. Movement 1: Prelude [3'12]
	12	No 16 in B flat minor. Movement 2: Fugue [9'24]
	13	No 17 in A flat major. Movement 1: Prelude [1'46]
	14	No 17 in A flat major. Movement 2: Fugue [4'04]
CD3	1	No 18 in F minor. Movement 1: Prelude [3'05]
	2	No 18 in F minor. Movement 2: Fugue [2'45]
	3	No 19 in E flat major. Movement 1: Prelude [2'26]
	4	No 19 in E flat major. Movement 2: Fugue [2'18]
	5	No 20 in C minor. Movement 1: Prelude [3'54]
	6	No 20 in C minor. Movement 2: Fugue [6'16]
	7	No 21 in B flat major. Movement 1: Prelude [1'31]
	8	No 21 in B flat major. Movement 2: Fugue [2'58]
	9	No 22 in G minor. Movement 1: Prelude [3'14]
	10	No 22 in G minor. Movement 2: Fugue [4'57]
	11	No 23 in F major. Movement 1: Prelude [3'42]
	12	No 23 in F major. Movement 2: Fugue [3'04]
	13	No 24 in D minor. Movement 1: Prelude [3'53]
	14	No 24 in D minor. Movement 2: Fugue [8'19]