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SHOSTAKOVICH, D.: Symphonies Nos. 9 and 15 (Stuttgart Radio Symphony, Boreyko)

Haenssler Classic
SHOSTAKOVICH, D.: Symphonies Nos. 9 and 15 (Stuttgart Radio Symphony, Boreyko)

Composer(s):Shostakovich, Dmitry
Artist(s) Boreyko, Andrey, Conductor • Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Period(s) 20th Century
Genre Classical Music
Category Orchestral
Catalogue CD93.284
Label Haenssler Classic
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
MP3
USD 9.99
 

 

   



Excellent performances of enigmatic works
Review By jleonard,July 2012

These two symphonies are the most enigmatic of Shostakovich’s oeuvre. The Ninth was supposed to have been a triumphant celebration of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War, but instead turned out short, neo-classical and very tongue in cheek (how Shostakovich got away with these flagrant examples of political disobedience is hard to fathom). The Fifteenth is his last Symphony, like the Fifteenth String Quartet, a study in slow tempi, but unlike the Quartet, filled with juxtapositions of mood, unexplained musical quotations and whim... the opening movement seems for long stretches to be harking back to the innocence of childhood, only for this mood to be brusquely contradicted.

These are live performances and very good ones. I have heard performances of the more....






 

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