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. —
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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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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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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... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, Disc of the month
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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. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2006, Editor's 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... —
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Building a Library, May 2008, Budget Choice
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Building A Library, April 2026, Top Choice (Symphony No. 9)
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Shostakovich: Symphonies; Concertos; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District
RecommendedYuja Wang (piano), Baiba Skride (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, New England Conservatory Symphonic Choir, Andris Nelsons
It truly is a monumental collection that shows both Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the height of their capabilities...If forced to choose I would say that the second movement of... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th March 2025
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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,... —
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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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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... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, Orchestral Choice
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Shostakovich: Complete Symphonies
RecommendedRepublican Russian Academic Choir Capella, Boys Choir of the Moscow State Choral School, Arthur Eisen, Male Group of Republican Russian Academic Choir Capella, Evgeniya Tselovalnik (soprano), Yevgeny Nesterenko (bass), David Oistrakh (violin), Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin
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Building A Library, July 2024, Recommended Recording (Symphony No. 5)
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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1-15
Vitalij Kowaljow (bass), Elena Stikhina (soprano), London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Choir, Gianandrea Noseda
Over nine years, the London Symphony Orchestra’s principal guest conductor progressed through Shostakovich’s 15 symphonies in concert performances acclaimed for thoughtfulness, verve and instrumental... —
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The Times, Best Classical Box Sets Christmas 2025
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[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... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th January 2018
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