SHOSTAKOVICH: Complete Symphonies by Great Russian Conductors (12 CDS)

COMPLETE NOTES DOWNLOADABLE IN OUR FREE DOWNLOADS SECTION (5th):”However committed you are to any other interpretation, his demands to be heard.”(Gramophone);(6th/14th): BBC Music Magazine Disc of the Month Nov.2014(8th): Mravinsky’s live recording of the Eighth of capital importance and demands to be heard: the Leningrad audience is struck dumb by it.” (Gramophone)(10th): deeply moving. ….Maxim Shostakovich should be compared with Haitink for noble sobriety” (Gramophone)(11th): “A superb performance with excellent sound makes this a benchmark recording and my top CD choice of the year. Shostakovich fans ignore this release at their peril !” (MusicWeb)(13th): So it’s significant this is once again made available, especially in such a memorably intense performance.” (Gramophone)(15th) “a superbly vivid Fifteenth, generally hard-driven à la Mravinsky but here far more convincingly poised” (Gramophone) Disc 1 of ALC 3143 [66:55]Symphony No.1 (Op.10); Symphony No.3 (Op.20) ‘First of May’