Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11

Deutsche Grammophon proudly continues the widely acclaimed, Grammy winning Shostakovich Symphony cycle with Music Director Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Andris Nelsons is the Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and new Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. With both appointments, and in leading a pioneering alliance between these two esteemed institutions, he is firmly underlined as one of the most renowned, exciting and innovative conductors on the international scene today After the “scandalously successful” (Sunday Times) Symphony No. 10 in 2015 and “the sheer expressive beauty” (Gramophone Magazine) of Symphonies Nos. 5, 8, 9 from 2016 Andris Nelsons and his Bostonians turn their attention to the extrovert Fourth and dramatic Eleventh - both recorded live for the third instalment of this long-term collaboration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra – “America's most cultured orchestra” (BBC Music Magazine) “hair-raisingly vibrant” Financial Times “breathtaking virtuosity” BBC Music Magazine

Tracks

1~1~Allegretto Poco Moderato
1~2~Presto
1~3~Moderato Con Moto
1~4~Largo
1~5~Allegro
2~1~Palace Square (Adagio)
2~2~The Ninth Of January (Allegro Adagio Allegro Adagio)
2~3~Eternal Memory (Adagio)
2~4~Tocsin (Allegro Non Troppo)

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Release Date: 20 July 2018
Genre: Classical Music
Label: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON (IMP)
Distributor: Universal Music