Shostakovich - Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54
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Orchestral » Symphonies
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This has to be the best-sounding Fourth on disc – a vivid sense of acoustic and scale but with thrilling immediacy, too. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th August 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024
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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,... — More…
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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
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 & Sinfonietta
RecommendedEstonian Festival Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
[Järvi’s] super-group is not huge but its bright clarity, with violins antiphonally placed, does not preclude the plumbing of depths both physical and emotional…This must be one of the finer... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th January 2018
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Vladimir Jurowski is… surely the most rounded Shostakovich interpreter to have emerged for many years, holding the balance between brooding song and headlong dance in perfect equilibrium. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2006, Editor's Choice
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Odd as it may be to start with 15, I wouldn’t recommend facing both at a single setting: each needs mental and emotional space to digest. It ’s certainly true that the swansong is more truly... — More…
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Superlative standards already set by this team's Shostakovich couldn't afford to slip in a symphony as great as the Sixth. In the first movement, at least, Vasily Petrenko and the Liverpudlians... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, Orchestral Choice
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If you want to get to know the less famous of Shostakovich's symphonies - and you should - then this is an excellent first port of call. Barshai and the WDR Orchestra bring out the full range... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2008, Budget Choice
11 CDs
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Shostakovich: Symphonies No. 6 & 14
Tatiana Monogarova (soprano) & Sergei Leiferkus (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
This is by far the most stunning Shostakovich disc I have heard this year...Here, the Sixth's opening is no introverted lament: rather, the LPO's string trills seem to express a rage a still... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, Disc of the month
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