M&V: Achingly Beautiful

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'From the brooding outset of this intense work Josefowicz's bleak, dark
colouration is unerringly judged and alongside Chang's purer outlook,
effective though that is, Warner's artist is much to be preferred.
Shostakovich's melodic opening "Nocturne" is achingly beautiful when
sculpted with such attention to the unsettling tide at its core.'

- In today's Music & Vision, Howard Smith recommends Leila Josefowicz's
recording of Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No 1 and the Violin Sonata.