United Kingdom
Mariinsky: MAR0502
Shostakovich - Symphonies No.1 & No.15
Our Price: £12.50
Format: SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 29th June 2009
Over 45 years separate the composition of Symphonies 1 and 15 and yet both exude creativity and Shostakovich's dark wit. The First Symphony owes much to the influence of Shostakovich's Russian predecessors, including Tchaikovsky and Scriabin. However, it also reflects contemporary artistic life and the optimism of the early years in the Soviet Union. By contrast, the final, 15th Symphony is a more bitter work, drawing on many of the themes that recur throughout Shostakovich's career and yet never resorting to melodrama.
Establishing its own independent label has given the Mariinsky Theatre complete artistic and financial control over its recordings. It can make more recordings than was possible in the past whilst ensuring that artistic values are consistently of the highest order. It has gained the freedom to choose which repertoire it records, enabling listeners around the world to enjoy exceptional performances from one of the greatest opera and ballet companies.
Valery Gergiev made award-winning recordings of Symphonies 4-9 for Philips, but he will be releasing a complete cycle on the Mariinsky label, starting with the symphonies he has not previously recorded.
Dsd recording, Marinsky Concert Hall, St Petersburg, 24-25/7/2008.
Establishing its own independent label has given the Mariinsky Theatre complete artistic and financial control over its recordings. It can make more recordings than was possible in the past whilst ensuring that artistic values are consistently of the highest order. It has gained the freedom to choose which repertoire it records, enabling listeners around the world to enjoy exceptional performances from one of the greatest opera and ballet companies.
Valery Gergiev made award-winning recordings of Symphonies 4-9 for Philips, but he will be releasing a complete cycle on the Mariinsky label, starting with the symphonies he has not previously recorded.
Dsd recording, Marinsky Concert Hall, St Petersburg, 24-25/7/2008.
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