Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7
Under Stalin's Shadow
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2019, Recording of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, May 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
This interpretation of the Leningrad pulls it all off with hyper-sophisticated playing and an alternation of tense atmosphere with electrifying release. Nelsons wins such beautiful phrasing,...
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7
Under Stalin's Shadow
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2019, Recording of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, May 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
This interpretation of the Leningrad pulls it all off with hyper-sophisticated playing and an alternation of tense atmosphere with electrifying release. Nelsons wins such beautiful phrasing,...
About
Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Andris Nelsons is the Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and new Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. With both appointments, and in leading a pioneering alliance between these two esteemed institutions, he is firmly underlined as one of the most renowned, exciting and innovative conductors on the international scene today After the “scandalously successful” (Sunday Times) Symphony No. 10 in 2015, “the sheer expressive beauty” (Gramophone Magazine) of Symphonies Nos. 5, 8, 9 from 2016 and the “overbearing vividness” (The Guardian) of the most recent Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11 Nelsons and the BSO continue the acclaimed cycle with the Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7, complemented by two other works by Shostakovich, the Suite from the Incidental Music to “King Lear” op. 58a and the Festive Overture op. 96.
The goal is a complete Shostakovich cycle on Deutsche Grammophon with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Contents and tracklist
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Andris Nelsons
- Recorded: 2017-05-02
- Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Boston
- William R. Hudgins (clarinet)
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Andris Nelsons
- Recorded: 2017-05-06
- Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Boston
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Andris Nelsons
- Recorded: 2017-05-02
- Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Boston
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Andris Nelsons
- Recorded: 2017-02-25
- Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Boston
Spotlight on this release
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Andris Nelsons continues his Shostakovich cycle with Symphonies 6 & 7
22nd Feb 2019
Andris Nelsons continues his Shostakovich series with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with thrillingly detailed accounts of the Sixth and Seventh symphonies.
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineJune 2019Recording of the Month
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Diapason d’OrMay 2019
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International Classical Music Awards2019Nominee - Symphonic Music
June 2019
This interpretation of the Leningrad pulls it all off with hyper-sophisticated playing and an alternation of tense atmosphere with electrifying release. Nelsons wins such beautiful phrasing, both collectively and individually.
April 2019
There is always plenty to relish in Nelson’s approach…But I do wonder, the more I hear of this cycle, if the pristine quality that Nelsons and his Boston orchestra bring to these pieces is inclined to render them a little too well-scrubbed…Much to applaud…but things that might niggle, too, if you like your Shostakovich on the rare side.
