Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Orchestra: Symphonie Orchester der Bayerischen Rundfunks
Conductor: Mariss Jansons
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BR-Klassik
Release: 2019
Size: 528 MB
Recovery: +3%
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Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93
01. I. Moderato
02. II. Allegro
03. III. Allegretto – Largo
04. IV. Andante – Allegro
Mariss Jansons considers Dmitri Shostakovich to be one of the most serious and sincere composers ever, and finds the fifteen symphonies in particular to be deeply moving and captivating. He sees their music as bearing shattering testimony to a traumatic era of political darkness, while remaining a timeless expression of existential human feeling and experience. Over a period of seventeen years, Mariss Jansons has recorded all the Shostakovich symphonies, on each occasion together with the orchestra he was artistically associated with at the time. Six of the performances were with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. In 2006 the cycle was completed in time for the centenary of the composer’s birth. The performance of the Thirteenth Symphony was awarded a Grammy in the ‘Best Orchestral Performance’ category.