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Andris Nelsons
Born: 18th November 1978, Riga, Latvian SSR
Nationality: Latvian
Artist's website: https://andrisnelsons.com
Widely acknowledged as one of the most exciting and versatile conductors of the early twenty-first century, Andris Nelsons was born into a musical family in Riga in 1978 and studied piano, singing and trumpet; he began his musical career as a trumpet-player with Latvian National Opera, where he went on to become principal conductor in 2003 following support and tuition from Mariss Jansons and Alexander Titov. He was appointed music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in autumn 2007 (‘Nelsons brings youth and vigour to the post, with, on this evidence, maturity and imagination of interpretative insight, firm control and eloquent persuasive powers’ – The Telegraph on his debut concert with the orchestra), where he remained until 2015 when he moved to the Boston Symphony Orchestra (recordings with Boston include an ongoing and much-praised Shostakovich cycle, the complete Brahms symphonies, and Sibelius’s Second Symphony). In 2018 he was appointed Gewandhauskapellmeister; his ongoing Bruckner cycle with the orchestra has been praised for its ’tremendous momentum’ (The Sunday Times),. ‘consistently superb playing’ (The Guardian), and Nelsons’s ‘direct, clear-sighted and spacious’ direction (Gramophone).
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Shostakovich Concertos and Symphonies from Andris Nelsons
28th Mar 2025
For the fiftieth anniversary of Shostakovich's death, Deutsche Grammophon have gathered together all fifteen of the composer's symphonies performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and their music director, alongside new recordings of all six concertos and the opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District.
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Andris Nelsons conducts symphonies by Shostakovich
25th Jun 2021
The latest instalment in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's cycle of Shostakovich symphonies juxtaposes the First and Fifteenth Symphonies, alongside expressive performances of the Fourteenth Symphony and the Chamber Symphony in C minor.
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Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9Recommended2 CDs: $21.50Download from $12.50
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Shostakovich: Symphonies; Concertos; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk...Recommended19 CDs: $81.75Download from $100.25
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Future Releases: Andris Nelsons
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Coming soon. Mendelssohn: Paulus, Elias, Symphonies Nos. 1-5Recommended7 CDs: Original price ($43.75) Reduced price $40.68Download from $10.00
