Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1: & other short works

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The performances throughout by the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg under Gustavo Gimeno are excellent, highly polished yet full of subtle nuance, wit and spirit, beautifully captured in... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2017 More…

Release Date: 19th May 2017
Catalogue No: PTC5186622
Label: Pentatone
Length: 68 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

August 2017

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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10

Work length32:52

$7.00

$9.10

$12.25

Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Gustavo Gimeno

I. Allegretto - Allegro non troppo

Track length8:47

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

II. Allegro

Track length4:55

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

III. Lento

Track length9:27

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

IV. Lento - Allegro molto - Largo - Presto

Track length9:43

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

Shostakovich: Scherzo in F sharp minor for orchestra, Op. 1

Work length5:13

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Gustavo Gimeno

Shostakovich: Theme and Variations in B flat major, Op. 3

Work length15:25

$4.00

$5.15

$7.00

Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Gustavo Gimeno

Shostakovich: Scherzo in E-Flat Major, Op. 7

Work length3:56

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Gustavo Gimeno

Shostakovich: 5 Fragments, Op. 42

Work length11:00

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Gustavo Gimeno

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Gustavo Gimeno conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg in a fascinating survey of confident, assured and striking orchestral works by the young Shostakovich. This new recording from Pentatone includes his breathtaking Symphony No. 1 Op. 10 - the student work which brought Shostakovich international fame. While indebted to the Russian masters, Shostakovich's early works nevertheless demonstrate his precocious brilliance, originality and falir and they offer an intriguing glimpse at the evolution of his distinctive, mature style. From the easy going and good humored Scherzo Op. 1, the Tchaikovskian Theme and Variations in B-flat major Op. 3, or the Stravinskyan Scherzo Op. 7, his youthful vitality is never in doubt. But with his Symphony No 1 Op. 10 he produced his first masterpiece and found his own distinctive voice. It's a thrilling work full of sardonic edginess, pained introspection and dramatic outbursts, and closes with a barnstorming finale. Composed 10 years later, the aptly titled Five Fragments for orchestra Op. 42 are short, pungent and austere pieces; the arresting style is modernist but the sound is unmistakeably Shostakovich. Following his acclaimed conducting debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2014, Gustavo Gimeno took up the post of Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg with the 2015-2016 season. An auspicious collaboration with Pentatone followed in 2016 and three releases with the orchestra are planned in 2017. "His musical rhetorics are refined, his grip on the structure of the compositions is accurate and convincint" observed Joep Stapel in the NRC Handelsblad, "Gimeno knew how to keep the tension and made the musicians...excel." Elsewhere in a busy international schedule, Gimeno has debuted with major orchestras in Europe and America, and toured with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to Taiwan and Japan

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August 2017

The performances throughout by the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg under Gustavo Gimeno are excellent, highly polished yet full of subtle nuance, wit and spirit, beautifully captured in SACD sound...Gimeno and his players reveal all the sharp contrasts of [The People's Will], ranging from eerie Ives-like sustained strings to the quirky concluding waltz.

August 2017

The sound of the Luxembourg Philharmonic…proves warmer and rounder, not always to the music’s advantage but likely to delight fans of natural, unshowy engineering. The coupling is distinctive too. For collectors loyal to physical format it will be a boon to have so generous a supplement of shorter compositions not readily accessible elsewhere

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1

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