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Shostakovich - Symphony No.8 | Alto ALC1150

Shostakovich - Symphony No.8

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Label: Alto

Cat No: ALC1150

Barcode: 5055354411502

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 5th September 2011

Contents

Artists

Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Yevgeny Mravinsky

Works

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Symphony no.8 in C minor, op.65

Artists

Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Yevgeny Mravinsky

About

"Mravinsky's live recording of the Eighth is of capital importance, since it was he who gave its première ....It is a performance of extraordinary vehemence and power, vivid contrast and bitter intensity. The curdled woodwind dissonances and huge climaxes of the 1st movement are given a shocking force not simply by sheer volume but by ....playing at the very limit of their powers: it is not often these days that we hear a clarinet or an oboe played so loudly ..... The fact this is a concert performance increases one's respect for the risks taken: to expect trombones to play staccato at the furious tempo Mravinsky chooses ....is really living dangerously, but they respond superbly, as do the belligerently precise trumpets ..... a performance which sees clearly that the real burden of emotion here lies in the strings .....for a recapturing of the appalling shock this work must have caused (the Russians were expecting a "Victory Symphony”), Mravinsky's account demands to be heard: the Leningrad audience is struck dumb by it.” - Gramophone

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