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Storgårds Shostakovich Symphonies
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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... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 'the First of May'; Two Scherzos
BBC Philharmonic, Hallé Choir, John Storgårds
As in his previous Shostakovich recordings, Storgårds is extremely good at generating a cleanly articulated and pristine sound even in the work's most frenzied passages. —
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Another terrific release from this source. —
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13; Arvo Part: de Profundis
Albert Dohmen (baritone), Estonian National Male Choir, Bbc Philharmonic, John Storgards
John Storgårds has shown his affinity for the composer in every disc of this complete series of the Shostakovich symphonies (still in progress). Here, he does not strive after extremes or try... —
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14; Six Verses of Marina Tsvetayeva
Elizabeth Atherton (soprano), Peter Rose (bass), Jess Dandy (contralto), BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds
The BBC Philharmonic under John Storgårds, in this third instalment of their symphonic Shostakovich series, are exemplary, whether in the sotto voce opening of the Symphony, or in the horrif... —
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Coming soon. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 2 'To October'; Symphony No. 5
BBC Philharmonic, CBSO Chorus, John Storgårds
