 | from Shostakovich: Music for viola and piano (CDA67865) 1 Un peu triste (after Prelude No 10) [1'39] 9 minutes 42 seconds 7 tracks2 Marche funèbre (after Prelude No 14) [1'57] 3 Une valse vite (after Prelude No 15) [0'50] 4 Une valse militaire (after Prelude No 16) [1'10] 5 Mélodie amoureuse (after Prelude No 17) [1'53] 6 Une danse ironique (after Prelude No 18) [0'48] 7 Finale (after Prelude No 24) [1'25] ‘A finely played programme that can be recommended with confidence’ (Gramophone) ‘Lawrence Power and Simon Crawford-Phillips embark on a musical narrative of epic proportions … a performance that shows great insight and poignancy. Framing the Sonata on this beautifully record ... ‘This fine Shostakovich CD … Power and Crawford-Phillips are eloquent interpreters, spare as well as generous in expressing the work's pervasive melancholy’ (The Observer) |