Review Examples: (5th):"However committed you are to any other interpretation, his demands to be heard."(Gramophone);(6th/14th): BBC Music Magazine Disc of the Month Nov.2014. (8th): Mravinsky's live recording of the Eighth of capital importance and demands to be heard: the Leningrad audience is struck dumb by it." (Gramophone). (10th): deeply moving.... Maxim Shostakovich should be compared with Haitink for noble sobriety" (Gramophone). (11th): "A superb performance with excellent sound makes this a benchmark recording and my top CD choice of the year. Shostakovich fans ignore this release at their peril !" (MusicWeb). (13th): So it's significant this is once again made available, especially in such a memorably intense performance." (Gramophone). (15th) "a superbly vivid Fifteenth, generally hard-driven à la Mravinsky but here far more convincingly poised" (Gramophone)
3 Symphony No. 12 in D minor Op. 112 'The Year 1917'
- Disc 3 -
1 Symphony No. 4 in C minor Op. 43
- Disc 4 -
1 Music from the Gadfly
2 Symphony No. 5 in D minor Op. 47
- Disc 5 -
1 Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54
2 Symphony No. 14 in G minor, Op. 135
- Disc 6 -
1 Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60
- Disc 7 -
1 Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65
- Disc 8 -
1 Festive Overture Op. 96
2 Scherzo for Orchestra in F Sharp minor Op. 1
3 Symphony No. 9 in E Flat Major
4 Symphony No. 15 in a Minor Op. 141 (1971)
- Disc 9 -
1 Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93
- Disc 10 -
1 Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 'The Year 1905'
- Disc 11 -
1 Incidental Music for King Lear, Op. 58A
2 Symphony No. 13 'Babi Yar'
- Disc 12 -
1 Bonus Disc of the Live Legendary World Premiere (1954) of Symphony No. 10 in E minor Op. 93 with the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra/ Mravinsky
Review Examples: (5th):"However committed you are to any other interpretation, his demands to be heard."(Gramophone);(6th/14th): BBC Music Magazine Disc of the Month Nov.2014. (8th): Mravinsky's live recording of the Eighth of capital importance and demands to be heard: the Leningrad audience is struck dumb by it." (Gramophone). (10th): deeply moving.... Maxim Shostakovich should be compared with Haitink for noble sobriety" (Gramophone). (11th): "A superb performance with excellent sound makes this a benchmark recording and my top CD choice of the year. Shostakovich fans ignore this release at their peril !" (MusicWeb). (13th): So it's significant this is once again made available, especially in such a memorably intense performance." (Gramophone). (15th) "a superbly vivid Fifteenth, generally hard-driven à la Mravinsky but here far more convincingly poised" (Gramophone)
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