Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10 (Vasily Petrenko)

Information

Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

1. Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93: I. Moderato
2. Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93: II. Allegro
3. Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93: III. Allegretto
4. Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93: IV. Andante - Allegro

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko, conductor
Date: 2010
Label: Naxos
http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.572461

--------------------------------------------------------------------

Review

ARTISTIC QUALITY: 10 / SOUND QUALITY: 10

This performance goes right to the top. Not since the amazing mono Ancerl recording has there been a version of this work of such intensity, such expressive urgency, and (yes, believe it or not) such incredible orchestral playing. It’s impossible to praise the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic enough: they put their London colleagues to shame. The cellos and basses have a dark, tactile presence in pianissimo not heard since the old Kondrashin Melodiya recording. The horns play the daylights out of their solos in the first and third movements, while Petrenko has the violins sustaining, articulating, and phrasing the climax of the first movement with a passion and grit that’s beyond praise.

Indeed, as an essay in Shostakovich conducting alone this performance deserves an honored place in every collection. Petrenko has the players digging into the second movement with unbridled ferocity at an ideally swift tempo. He ferrets out every subtle detail of scoring in the crepuscular Allegretto while never permitting the music to drag. His finale has just the right manic high spirits, and he clarifies the DSCH motive in the timpani at the end better than anyone else ever has. It’s all captured in gloriously vivid, present sonics by the Naxos engineers. Thrilling, perfect, essential–a magnificent achievement and hands down the modern reference recording. [11/30/2010]

-- David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday

More reviews:
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/shostakovich-symphony-no-10-4
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2010/Nov10/Shostakovich10_Petrenko_8572461.htm
http://www.classical-music.com/review/shostakovich-symphony-no-10
http://www.classical.net/~music/recs/reviews/n/nxs72461a.php
http://www.allmusic.com/album/shostakovich-symphony-no-10-mw0002060347
http://www.naxos.com/reviews/reviewslist.asp?catalogueid=8.572461&languageid=EN
http://www.amazon.com/Shostakovich-Symphony-No-10-Dmitri/dp/B0040SOKTK

--------------------------------------------------------------------

Dmitri Shostakovich (25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist, and a prominent figure of 20th-century music. Shostakovich achieved fame in the Soviet Union, but later had a complex and difficult relationship with the government. Shostakovich's music is characterized by sharp contrasts, elements of the grotesque, and ambivalent tonality; the composer was also heavily influenced by the neo-classical style pioneered by Igor Stravinsky, and (especially in his symphonies) by the post-Romanticism associated with Gustav Mahler.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich

***

Vasily Petrenko (born 7 July 1976, Leningrad, USSR) is a Russian conductor. Petrenko studied conducting principally under Ravil Martynov, also learning from Mariss Jansons, Yuri Temirkanov and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Since 2006 he has been principal conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and is chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra since 2013. He is noted for his recordings of Shostakovich symphonies on Naxos and Rachmaninov on EMI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Petrenko

--------------------------------------------------------------------

FLAC, tracks

Links in comment

Enjoy!