Shostakovich: Symphonies No. 6 & 14

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This is by far the most stunning Shostakovich disc I have heard this year...Here, the Sixth's opening is no introverted lament: rather, the LPO's string trills seem to express a rage a still... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Sep 2014
Catalogue No: LPO0080
Label: LPO
Length: 77 minutes

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December 2014

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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54

Work length30:10

Album only

Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Recorded: 17 May 2013
Recording Venue: Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, United Kingdom

I. Largo

Track length17:02

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II. Allegro

Track length5:50

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III. Presto

Track length7:18

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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14 in G minor, Op. 135

Work length47:29

$11.40

$15.60

$19.20

Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Tatiana Monogarova, Sergei Leiferkus
Recorded: 18 February 2006
Recording Venue: Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London, United Kingdom

I. De profundis

Track length4:44

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II. Malaguena

Track length2:39

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III. Lorelei

Track length7:34

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IV. The Suicide

Track length6:48

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V. On Watch

Track length2:50

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VI. Madam, look!

Track length2:02

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VII. In Prison

Track length8:58

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VIII. The Zaporozhian Cossack's Reply to the Sultan of Constantinople

Track length1:57

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IX. Oh Delvig, Delvig!

Track length3:55

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X. The Death of a Poet

Track length4:44

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XI. Epilogue (Alla marcia)

Track length1:18

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Growing up in Moscow, with a conductor father and a composer grandfather who was a friend and colleague of Shostakovich, Vladimir Jurowski absorbed Shostakovich’s music (and the climate of its composition) into his blood, and his personal connection with it is palpable in these recordings. Both works were recorded live in concert at Southbank Centre. The 2013 performance of Symphony No. 6 was part of Southbank Centre’s festival The Rest Is Noise, a year-long exploration of 20th century music for which the LPO won the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Ensemble.

In Symphony No. 14, a dark song-cycle setting poems by various authors on the subject of death, Jurowski is joined by soloists Tatiana Monogarova (soprano) and Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), regular collaborators with the LPO, who express the haunting sentiment of the songs in their impeccable native Russian. This 2006 performance – Jurowski’s first Shostakovich with the LPO – was described by the Financial Times as ‘a wonderfully felt performance in the way conductor and orchestra articulate and sustain this intimate, death-ridden song cycle. It’s hard to imagine a more intense female soloist than Tatiana Monogarova, while Sergei Leiferkus brings all his authority to the baritone part.’

Review of the Symphony No. 6 performance: ‘An exceptional account of Shostakovich 6 … affecting and scintillating, hugely involving, the playing concentrated, unanimous and full of character. From Stewart McIlwham’s piccolo to the richly mottled double basses via Simon Carrington’s timpani, this was the LPO in fabulous form responding to its Principal Conductor who really knows how this score goes.’ (Classical Source)

Booklet includes Russian texts and English translations for Symphony No. 14.

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December 2014

This is by far the most stunning Shostakovich disc I have heard this year...Here, the Sixth's opening is no introverted lament: rather, the LPO's string trills seem to express a rage a still young Shostakovich had much reason to feel...Altogether it's a gruelling experience, but not one to be missed.

25th October 2014

The intensity never drops for a moment from the ride to manic elation to an unwavering gaze into the abyss.

November 2014

[Jurowski] pushes powerfully through the scherzo...never overstating incidental detail...Monogarova is splendid...applying 21st-century pose and discipline to the timbre and attitude of the old-style Russian dramatic soprano. Not since Galina Vishnevskaya have I heard quite such committed singing in this extraordinary music.

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