- Artist:
- Andris Nelsons
Shostakovich Symphonies 1, 4 & 15 and Chamber Symphony in C Minor (2CD)
$24.95
In this latest instalment in “an ongoing Shostakovich survey that has rightly won him three Grammy Awards” (New York Times), Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra bookend the composer’s brilliant, often turbulent symphonic career.
Nearly half a century lies between Shostakovich’s triumphant debut with the First, premiered before his 20th birthday, and the Fifteenth, an inventory of influences written under the shadow of his own mortality. Penned just two years earlier, the Fourteenth is a symphonic song cycle, and the Chamber Symphony is a skilful adaptation of that tragic masterpiece, the Eighth String Quartet.