Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich
Orchestra: Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Conductor: Bernard Haitink
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BR Klassik
Catalogue: 900210
Release: 2025
Size: 432 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op. 141
01. I. Allegretto
02. II. Adagio – Largo – Adagio – Largo
03. III. Allegretto
04. IV. Adagio – Allegretto – Adagio – Allegretto
The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra enjoyed a long and intensive artistic collaboration, which came to an abrupt end with Haitink’s death in October 2021. BR-KLASSIK now presents outstanding and previously unreleased live recordings of their concerts from past years. This recording of Shostakovich’s Fifteenth Symphony documents a concert given in February 2015 in Munich’s Philharmonie im Gasteig. Haitink first conducted a Munich subscription concert in 1958, and from then on was a regular guest with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – either in the Herkulessaal of the Residenz or in the Philharmonie im Gasteig. This congenial collaboration lasted for more than six decades. As an interpreter of the symphonic repertoire, and especially that of the German-Austrian Late Romantic period, Haitink was held in high esteem throughout the world. With him, the symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich were always in the best of hands. Haitink’s driving principle was to make the sound architecture of a musical composition, with its complex interweaving, transparently audible; extreme sensitivity of sound was combined with a clearly structured interpretation of the score.
