Andris Nelsons, Boston SO - Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow - Symphony No.10 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 64:50 minutes | 1,28 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet
The first installment of a long-term collaboration with one of the most exciting young conductors of our time: Andris Nelsons the newly appointed Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Andris Nelsons - even though being only in his mid 30ies - has had a long journey with Shostakovich. He is one of the last conductors of his generation who still grew up in the Russian and, more especially, the Soviet musical tradition ever since he started his training as a conductor. He studied in St Petersburg with Alexander Titov and also with Mariss Jansons. His new orchestra has had a great tradition in performing many of Shostakovichs works in America for the first time. The theme of the first album with Shostakovichs 10th Symphony and Passacaglia from Lady Macbeth is a reflection on Shostakovich and Stalin. Lady Macbeth was the piece which brought criticism of his work and the radical change of style, whereas Symphony 10 is from the year Stalin died: the long arc of censorship of Shostakovich until Stalins death, and the composers response to this.
The "Under Stalin's Shadow" subtitle of this release may be confusing inasmuch as the opening Passacaglia from the opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District dates from before the period when Stalin made Shostakovich's life a living hell, and the main attraction, the Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93, was finished ten months after Stalin's death. Actually the album is the first in a set of three; the others will cover the symphonies No. 5 through No. 9, all written during the period of Stalinist cultural control. But even here the theme is relevant: the pieces are linked by a dark mood that carries overtones (of a feminist sort in the case of the opera) of repression. And the Symphony No. 10 is decidedly some kind of turning point, with repeated (and finally triumphant) assertions of the D-S-C-H motif (D, E flat, C, B natural in the German system) that would appear frequently in the composer's later work. Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Andris Nelsons, who grew up in Soviet-controlled Latvia, is to be believed when he claims a spiritual kinship with Shostakovich, and he delivers a full-blooded performance of the Symphony No. 10 that rises from deepest introspective gloom to a fine example of Shostakovich's sarcasm, to the discovery of the motif, to a triumphant finale enthusiastically greeted by Symphony Hall's usually reserved patrons. Deutsche Grammophon's live engineering, in the orchestra's first recording for the label, is notably clear and sharp. A superior reading of one of the lesser-known Shostakovich symphonies.
Tracklist:
01 - Lady Macbeth Of The Mtsensk District, Op.29 / Act 2: Passacaglia
02 - Symphony No.10 In E Minor, Op.93:1. Moderato
03 - Symphony No.10 In E Minor, Op.93:2. Allegro
04 - Symphony No.10 In E Minor, Op.93:3. Allegretto
05 - Symphony No.10 In E Minor, Op.93:4. Andante - Allegro
Analyzed: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Main Artist, Orchestra - Andris Nelsons, Conductor, Main Artist - Alexander Preis, Author - Dmitri Shostakovich, Author, Composer - Musikverlag Hans Sikorski GmbH & Co KG / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons : Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow - Symphony No. 10 (1)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Main Artist, Orchestra - Andris Nelsons, Conductor, Main Artist - Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Musikverlag Hans Sikorski GmbH & Co KG / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons : Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow - Symphony No. 10 (2-5)
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -0.18 dB -18.35 dB 8:11 01-Lady Macbeth Of The Mtsensk District, Op.29 / Act 2:Passacaglia
DR16 -0.19 dB -22.49 dB 25:39 02-Symphony No.10 In E Minor, Op.93:1. Moderato
DR12 -0.18 dB -16.83 dB 4:22 03-Symphony No.10 In E Minor, Op.93:2. Allegro
DR17 -0.93 dB -24.63 dB 12:44 04-Symphony No.10 In E Minor, Op.93:3. Allegretto
DR15 -0.12 dB -21.72 dB 13:54 05-Symphony No.10 In E Minor, Op.93:4. Andante - Allegro
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Number of tracks: 5
Official DR value: DR15
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2724 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Boston Symphony Orchestra, Main Artist, Orchestra - Andris Nelsons, Conductor, Main Artist - Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Musikverlag Hans Sikorski GmbH & Co KG / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons : Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow - Symphony No. 10 (2-5)
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -0.18 dB -18.35 dB 8:11 01-Lady Macbeth Of The Mtsensk District, Op.29 / Act 2:Passacaglia
DR16 -0.19 dB -22.49 dB 25:39 02-Symphony No.10 In E Minor, Op.93:1. Moderato
DR12 -0.18 dB -16.83 dB 4:22 03-Symphony No.10 In E Minor, Op.93:2. Allegro
DR17 -0.93 dB -24.63 dB 12:44 04-Symphony No.10 In E Minor, Op.93:3. Allegretto
DR15 -0.12 dB -21.72 dB 13:54 05-Symphony No.10 In E Minor, Op.93:4. Andante - Allegro
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Number of tracks: 5
Official DR value: DR15
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2724 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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