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Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko

The way Petrenko follows the finale's course away from its central confrontations towards its exhausted, wary truce rings as true as in any recorded version I can recall. So there are the makings... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2010 More…
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London Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich

The most overwhelming performance; could musical expression possibly go further? — BBC Music Magazine, 1st July 2008 More…
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8

Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Tugan Sokhiev
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Shostakovich: Symphony Nos. 8, 9, 10

Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko

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Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev

a very impressive interpretation of the most harrowing and questioning of Shostakovich's 'war symphonies'...Gergiev is especially convincing in his shaping of the large-scale architecture of... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…
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London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda

[Noseda] has a firm handle on the depth and breadth of the symphony, chronicling his way through its empty wastes and bone-crushing upheavals of rolling percussion. The first movement’s long... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2019 More…
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Shostakovich - Complete Symphonies

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Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth

Mark Wigglesworth… stretches the playing of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic to its very impressive limits and remains the finest Shostakovich interpreter of his generation. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, 4 out of 5 stars More…
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Shostakovich: Symphonies, The Song of the Forests

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