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    Boston SO, Andris Nelsons - Dmitri Shostakovich - "Under Stalin's Shadow": Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9; Suite From "Hamlet" (2016)

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    Boston SO, Andris Nelsons - Dmitri Shostakovich - "Under Stalin's Shadow": Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9; Suite From "Hamlet" (2016)

    Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9; Suite From "Hamlet" (2016)
    Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, conductor

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 624 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 365 Mb | Artwork included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 479 5201 GH2 | Time: 02:37:35

    Andris Nelsons is the Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and in fall 2015 he was announced as Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, commencing in the 2017/18 season. With both appointments, and in leading a pioneering alliance between these two esteemed institutions, Andris Nelsons is firmly underlined as one of the most renowned and innovative conductors on the international scene today. The goal is a complete Shostakovich cycle on Deutsche Grammophon with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This recording provides a kaleidoscope of Shostakovichs struggle with historical events and political pressures. The pre-war eclectic but accessible and popular 5th, in which he would seem to bow to political pressure, ensured his temporary rehabilitation. The beautiful but dark and gloomy mid-war 8th provoked yet again his fall from favor and instead of providing the political authorities with a triumphant post-war 9th Symphony, Shostakovich wrote a light Haydnesque work which would not be performed until after Stalins death. Selections from the Hamlet Suite, possibly Shostakovichs best film score, rounds out this 2 CD set.

    Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Philharmonia Orchestra - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 (2024)

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    Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Philharmonia Orchestra - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 (2024)

    Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Philharmonia Orchestra - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 (2024)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 188 Mb | Total time: 54:59 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Philharmonia Records | # SIGCD889 | Recorded: 2024

    “Santtu conducts Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10” is the fifth album from Philharmonia Records. Largely interpreted as depicting Stalin’s regime in Russia, the orchestra delivers tragedy, violence and gloom before the brief but triumphant finale. Conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali, this performance was recorded at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in April 2024.

    Boston SO, Andris Nelsons - Dmitri Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphony No. 10; Passacaglia (2015)

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    Boston SO, Andris Nelsons - Dmitri Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphony No. 10; Passacaglia (2015)

    Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10; Passacaglia (2015)
    Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andris Nelsons

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 283 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 151 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 479 5059 GH | Time: 01:04:50

    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.

    Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky - Dmitri Shostakovich, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Trios (1999)

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    Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky - Dmitri Shostakovich, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Trios (1999)

    Dmitri Shostakovich, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Trios (1999)
    Martha Argerich, piano; Gidon Kremer, violin; Mischa Maisky, violoncello

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 330 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 207 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 459 326-2 | Time: 01:19:18

    Wow! This is music making on a cosmic scale. You may hear some jaded critic offer up the following generic comment about this release: "These three players, gathered together for only the second time, naturally can't equal the subtle give and take of more established chamber ensembles." Bull. All three artists rank among the most inspirational and experienced chamber players of our time, and here they set the notes on fire in performances of shattering intensity, improvisational spontaneity, and (in the Tchaikovsky) Herculean grandeur. Argerich's performance of the concerto-like piano part of the Tchaikovsky Trio is especially impressive; she seems to know instinctively when to dominate the proceedings and when to let her partners take over; and the final "Theme and Variations"–a huge movement half an hour in length–seldom has sounded so cohesive and meaningful. As to the Shostakovich, well, what can I say? This is one of the most profoundly moving experiences in music, and how well this trio knows it! The three players find the perfect tempo for the third movement Passacaglia, then build the tragic finale as inexorably as fate itself.

    Alexei Lubimov - Messe Noire: Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Scriabin (2005)

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    Alexei Lubimov - Messe Noire: Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Scriabin (2005)

    Alexei Lubimov - Messe Noire: Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Scriabin (2005)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 205 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 168 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1679, 465 1372 | Time: 01:05:54

    This CD's title, Messe Noire, and its dark cover art may mislead some into thinking this album is filled with evil, forbidden things; but the only selection that suggests the diabolical is Alexander Scriabin's macabre Sonata No. 9, "Black Mass," and it comes at the very end, after Igor Stravinsky's light, neo-Classical Serenade in A, Dmitry Shostakovich's sardonic Sonata No. 2, and Sergey Prokofiev's witty but brutal knuckle-buster, the Sonata No. 7, which all have their dark moments, certainly, but not the same sinister mood found in Scriabin. If pianist Aleksei Lubimov's aim in bringing these Russian masterworks together points to some other unifying idea – perhaps the significance of the piano in these composers' thinking – then some other title might have been more helpful. As it is, though, this album seems most unified in Lubimov's vigorous style of playing, brittle execution, and emphasis on the piano's percussive sonorities, evident in each performance. This spiky approach works best in Prokofiev's sonata, and fairly well in Shostakovich's and Stravinsky's pieces; but it seems too sterile in Scriabin's music, which needs more languor and sensuous writhing than clarity or crispness.

    Martin Helmchen, Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra - Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2011)

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    Martin Helmchen, Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra - Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2011)

    Martin Helmchen, Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra - Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Piano Quintet in G minor (2011)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 269 Mb | Total time: 75:33 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: LPO | # LPO-0053 | Recorded: 2008

    Shostakovich’s energetic piano concertos feature striking and attractive themes, with sudden changes of mood between the burlesque and haunting, perfectly captured in these live recordings with pianist Martin Helmchen and the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski. The Piano Quintet displays perhaps an even greater range of styles within a work of unusual purity written under the looming shadow of war.

    Pacifica Quartet - The Soviet Experience, Vol. 2: String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries (2012)

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    Pacifica Quartet - The Soviet Experience, Vol. 2: String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries (2012)

    Pacifica Quartet - The Soviet Experience, Vol. 2: String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries (2012)
    dBpoweramp | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 564 Mb | Total time: 75:37+53:40 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Cedille | # CDR90000-130 | Recorded: 2010-2011

    This is the second installment in the Pacifica Quartet’s highly anticipated, four–volume CD survey of the complete Shostakovich string quartets: The Soviet Experience: String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries. The Soviet Experience is the first Shostakovich quartet cycle to include works by other important composers of the Soviet era, adding variety and perspective to the listening experience.

    Evgeni Koroliov, Pražák Quartet - Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartets, Opp. 108 & 110; Piano Quintet, Op. 57 (2010)

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    Evgeni Koroliov, Pražák Quartet - Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartets, Opp. 108 & 110; Piano Quintet, Op. 57 (2010)

    Evgeni Koroliov, Pražák Quartet - Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartets, Opp. 108 & 110; Piano Quintet, Op. 57 (2010)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 310 Mb | Total time: 66:34 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Praga Digitals | PRD/DSD 250 270 | Recorded: 2009, 2010

    The back cover of this Czech release promises "certainly the most intense chamber programme that might be dedicated to the joint memory of Sviatoslav Richter and Dmitry Shostakovich," and the performances live up to the billing. The first half of the program is given over to a pair of string quartets from the year 1960, around the point where Shostakovich's inward turn following his denunciation by Soviet cultural commissars merged with his reflections on the violence of modern war to create a uniquely modern tragic dialogue.

    Alban Gerhardt, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, WDR Sinfonieorchester - Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concertos (2020)

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    Alban Gerhardt, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, WDR Sinfonieorchester - Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concertos (2020)

    Alban Gerhardt, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, WDR Sinfonieorchester - Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concertos (2020)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 259 Mb | Total time: 57:22 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDA68340 | Recorded: 2018

    Alban Gerhardt writes admiringly of Rostropovich and the legacy of marvellous works he inspired, but on the evidence of these extraordinary accounts of two of them, he need fear no comparisons with his great Russian forebear.

    Riccardo Muti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.13 'Babi Yar' (2019)

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    Riccardo Muti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.13 'Babi Yar' (2019)

    Riccardo Muti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Alexey Tikhomirov - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.13 'Babi Yar' (2019)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 284 Mb | Total time: 68:30 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: CSO Resound | CSOR9011901 | Recorded: 2018

    Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, men of the Chicago Symphony Chorus and bass soloist Alexey Tikhomirov in this poignant performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13, Op. 113 (Babi Yar), recorded live in September 2018.

    Gianandrea Noseda, London Symphony Orchestra - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 'The Year 1905' (2025)

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    Gianandrea Noseda, London Symphony Orchestra - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 'The Year 1905' (2025)

    Gianandrea Noseda, London Symphony Orchestra - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 'The Year 1905' (2025)
    XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 278 Mb | Total time: 63:07 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: LSO Live | # LSO0888 | Recorded: 2022

    Inspired by a time of war, protest, and a nation on the brink, Shostakovich's Symphony No 11 reflects upon the tumult and tragedy of the 1905 Russian Revolution.

    Fitzwilliam String Quartet, Elisabeth Söderström, Vladimir Ashkenazy - Shostakovich: Piano Quintet, Seven Romances (1987)

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    Fitzwilliam String Quartet, Elisabeth Söderström, Vladimir Ashkenazy - Shostakovich: Piano Quintet, Seven Romances (1987)

    Fitzwilliam String Quartet, Elisabeth Söderström, Vladimir Ashkenazy - Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet, Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok (1987)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 278 Mb | Total time: 63:51 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Decca | 411 940-2 | Recorded: 1983, 1986

    The piano quintet is one of Shostakovich's most popular chamber music works, and has been ever since the first performance. The premiere came only a few years after "Pravda" had denounced the composer, and the work allowed him to rehabilitate himself and return to public musical life. But the bitter years were not forgotten: although the Soviet authorities were pleased with the new work, it is full of hidden references to the fear-stricken times, and can be understood as a critique of the system. This recording does justice to the work's context, with Ashkenazy and the Fitzwilliam Quartet delivering an extremely expressive performance.

    Quatuor Danel - Dmitri Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets [6CDs] (2024)

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    Quatuor Danel - Dmitri Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets [6CDs] (2024)

    Quatuor Danel - Dmitri Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets (2024)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,52 Gb | Total time: 6:20:05 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Accentus Music | # ACC80585 | Recorded: 2022

    With their recording of Dmitri Shostakovich’s complete string quartets, the Quatuor Danel has crafted an impressive opus that delves into the composer’s life with deep musical understanding and establishes unparalleled standards in interpreting his chamber music. These new live recordings, stemming from their 2022 residency at the Mendelssohn Hall of the Gewandhaus Leipzig, capture the full spectrum of emotions embedded in Shostakovich’s quartet cycle, from the ethereal to the profound, from the whimsical to the contemplative.

    Eugene Ormandy - The Philadelphia Orchestra 1958-1963 [88CDs] Part 3 (2024)

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    Eugene Ormandy - The Philadelphia Orchestra 1958-1963 [88CDs] Part 3 (2024)

    Eugene Ormandy - The Philadelphia Orchestra 1958-1963 [88CDs] Part 3 (2024)
    XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 7,36 Gb | Total time: 75:52:53 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 194399774328 | Recorded: 1958-1963

    Following up on the success of Sony Classical’s recent large-scale Ormandy collections – his monaural discographies with the Minneapolis Symphony and Philadelphia orchestras – the label now presents the conductor’s stereo recordings from Philadelphia containing all recordings released from 1958 to 1963 (plus some fillers from later years) Eugene Ormandy took over the music directorship in Philadelphia from Leopold Stokowski in 1938 and held the position for 42 years. During that time his name and the orchestra’s became inseparable as he cultivated and further developed the voluptuous sound that originated with his predecessor.

    John Storgårds, BBC Philharmonic - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.11 (2020)

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    John Storgårds, BBC Philharmonic - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.11 (2020)

    John Storgårds, BBC Philharmonic - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.11 (2020)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 265 Mb | Total time: 66:45 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Chandos ‎| CHSA 5278 | Recorded: 2019

    The BBC Philharmonic under John Storgårds performs Shostakovich’s monumental Eleventh Symphony The Year 1905, which commemorates the St Petersburg uprising.