Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

This Fifth might even be caricatured as vaguely retro...The Leipzig team works hard to invigorate old-school expressive intentions with precise, sometimes glorious playing...The concerto may... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2020 More…

Release Date: 28th Feb 2020
Catalogue No: ACC10478
Label: Accentus Music

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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 99

Baiba Skride (violin)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Andris Nelsons

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Andris Nelsons

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In Shostakovich‘s Violin Concerto No. 1, the violin does not allow itself a break, continually tells its dark story, revolves around the same thoughts, jokes and mocks, stutters, gets into the vicious circle of ostinato Passa-caglia bass lines, loses itself in the loneliness of the extended cadenza and again and again falls into beguilingly beautiful singing. The Stalin regime would not have missed the fact that although a great many things run in small circles here, nothing „runs smoothly“, which is why the premiere did not take place until 1955, after Stalin‘s death. Peter Tchaikovsky initially thought his „Symphony of Fate“ was a failure and believed himself to be at the end of his creative powers. The audience‘s enthusiasm for the work grew with each performance. It was probably the composer‘s nature, plagued by self-doubt, that made it almost impossible for him to develop a self-confident attitude to his own creative power. This recording of the 5th Symphony is another milestone in Andris Nelson‘s Tchaikovsky cycle with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.

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June 2020

This Fifth might even be caricatured as vaguely retro...The Leipzig team works hard to invigorate old-school expressive intentions with precise, sometimes glorious playing...The concerto may be just as much of a draw...Skride captures a real sense of unease without wearing her heart on her sleeve...Some might prefer tauter, more objective renditions but admirers of these artists need not hesitate.

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

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