Gramophone Magazine
February 2018
Editor's Choice

Martha Argerich (piano), Jakub Waszczeniuk (trumpet)
Sinfonia Varsovia, Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet & strings, Op. 35
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70

"It is said that Argerich was nearing 50 when she turned serious attention to Shostakovich. We must all be grateful that she did. I know of no other pianist who mines the First Concerto’s riches with her depth of understanding, yet delivers it with such consummate ease...[Rabinovitch] conducts an orchestra more expertly than the vast majority of his composer colleagues." - Gramophone Magazine February 2018