BBC Radio 3’s Record Review programme has named Yulianna Avdeeva’s Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues Op. 87 as their Record of the Week. An extract of the exceptional review stated:
“Shostakovich’s preludes and fugues represent the entire spectrum of his soul, says Yulianna Avdeeva. Well for me, she’s captured that spectrum in this beautifully recorded, two disc set on Pentatone; my Record of the Week made in Leipzig where the idea first occurred to Shostakovich in 1950 when he was judging the Bach competition and at a time when he was still very much under the cosh from Starlin. Yulianna Avdeeva proving herself yet again with this disc to be a musician of great artistry and enterprise” BBC Radio 3 Record Review.
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