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Weill - Symphony no.2; Shostakovich - Symphony no.5 | Warner 9029547834

Weill - Symphony no.2; Shostakovich - Symphony no.5

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Label: Warner

Cat No: 9029547834

Barcode: 0190295478346

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 13th May 2022

Gramophone Editor's Choice

Contents

Artists

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Lahav Shani

Works

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Symphony no.5 in D minor, op.47

Weill, Kurt

Symphony no.2 'Symphonic Fantasy'

Artists

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Lahav Shani

About

Two symphonies from the turbulent 1930s are juxtaposed in Lahav Shani’s second Warner Classics release as Chief Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Shani has described Kurt Weill’s Symphony no.2, premiered by Bruno Walter in Amsterdam in 1933, as “one of my favourite pieces to conduct… It is tonal music, very melodic, very theatrical, and really not comparable to anything else.” Shostakovich’s powerful Symphony no.5, with its enigmatic interplay of sincerity and irony, was chosen by Shani to conclude his inaugural concert as Music Director in Rotterdam in 2018.

Reviews

An eye- (and ear-) catching coupling. Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony is front and centre of the core repertoire these days – though not always in performances as good as this one – but we rarely hear Kurt Weill’s two symphonies and the Second is a piece of real significance in the musical history of its time, bridging as it does Weill’s two lives in Germany and America. ... A terrific disc.  Edward Seckerson
Gramophone June 2022

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