Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11

Storgårds in Manchester gives an appropriately humanised interpretation, set on a wide sound stage that is one of Chandos’s natural best. The cinematic opening twitches with inner life, all dynamics... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Mar 2020
Catalogue No: CHSA5278
Label: Chandos
Length: 66 minutes

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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 'The year 1905'

Work length1:06:43

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BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds

I. Adagio (The Palace Square)

Track length17:40

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II. Allegro (The 9th of January)

Track length21:03

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III. Adagio (Eternal Memory)

Track length12:16

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IV. Allegro non troppo (Tocsin)

Track length15:44

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The BBC Philharmonic under John Storgårds performs Shostakovich’s monumental Eleventh Symphony The Year 1905, which commemorates the St Petersburg uprising.

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June 2020

Storgårds in Manchester gives an appropriately humanised interpretation, set on a wide sound stage that is one of Chandos’s natural best. The cinematic opening twitches with inner life, all dynamics duly observed, while the polyphony of stirring to action in the second movement is ideally clear…Impressive solos from muted trumpets and low-register cor anglais add sophistication.

September/October 2020

On its own terms this new account makes for a satisfying listen. The orchestra plays well and is captured in vivid, transparent sound. Storgårds shows a special sensitivity for the score at its quietist, in the dawn scene of the first movement and the elegiac opening of the third movement, “Memoriam.” The crowd-pleasing rat-a-tat-tat is done with intense fervor.

June 2020

This is a resounding performance...but more significantly it is a searching, very inward reading, too. John Storgårds favours an expansive, widescreen approach underlining the work’s theatricality and lending the big set pieces an implacable power...a terrific performance and a terrific-sounding disc.

5th April 2020

Storgårds paces the drama with inexorable tread, inspiring the players to shattering climaxes in the massacre “scene” — the second movement — and the final “Tocsin”, in which real church bells ring out at the symphony’s “optimistic” denouement. The atmosphere of foreboding before the massacre, and numbed shock after the event, are evocatively caught.

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