Shostakovitch - Piano Quintet in G Minor - Piano Trio in E Minor
Two of Shoskakovich's most powerful and popular chamber works given hair-raising performances by Australia's best chamber ensemble.
...it's the Quintet that steals the limelight. Thanks to a performance of rich warmth that grips your attention from the start and never lets it go. The Trio is also very well done. The Tall Poppies recordings are, as usual, first class.
Laurie Strahan The Australian.
More intense than his symphonies, Shostakovich's music bears the full extent of the agony he experienced in Soviet Russia. Dene Olding and the other members of the Australia Ensemble realise much of this agony in their reading of these two demanding works.
Tony Way The Age. August 1996
Two of Shoskakovich's most powerful and popular chamber works given hair-raising performances by Australia's best chamber ensemble.
...it's the Quintet that steals the limelight. Thanks to a performance of rich warmth that grips your attention from the start and never lets it go. The Trio is also very well done. The Tall Poppies recordings are, as usual, first class.
Laurie Strahan The Australian.
More intense than his symphonies, Shostakovich's music bears the full extent of the agony he experienced in Soviet Russia. Dene Olding and the other members of the Australia Ensemble realise much of this agony in their reading of these two demanding works.
Tony Way The Age. August 1996