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
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.