Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Performer: Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Kristine Opolais
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Andris Nelsons
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Release: 2021
Size: 2.5 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10
01. I. Allegretto – Allegro non troppo
02. II. Allegro
03. III. Lento
04. IV. Lento – Allegro molto
Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op. 141
05. I. Allegretto
06. II. Adagio – Largo – Adagio – Largo
07. III. Allegretto
08. IV. Adagio – Allegretto – Adagio – Allegretto
Symphony No. 14 in G minor, Op. 135
09. I. De Profundis
10. II. Malagueña
11. III. Loreley
12. IV. Le suicidé
13. V. Les attentives I
14. VI. Les attentives II
15. VII. A la santé
16. VIII. Réponse des Cosaques Zaporogues au Sultan de Constantinople
17. IX. O, Delvig, Delvig!
18. X. Der Tod des Dichters
19. XI. Schlussstück
Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op. 110a
20. I. Largo – attacca (Orch. Barshai)
21. II. Allegro molto – attacca (Orch. Barshai)
22. III. Allegretto – attacca (Orch. Barshai)
23. IV. Largo – attacca (Orch. Barshai)
24. V. Largo (Orch. Barshai)
In this installment in “an ongoing Shostakovich survey”, Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra bookend the composer’s brilliant, often turbulent symphonic career. Nearly half a century lies between Shostakovich’s triumphant debut with the First, premiered before his 20th birthday, and the Fifteenth, an inventory of influences written under the shadow of his own mortality. Penned just two years earlier, the Fourteenth is a symphonic song cycle, and the Chamber Symphony is a skillful adaptation of his tragic String Quartet No. 8.