Gennadi Rozhdestvensky - SHOSTAKOVICH Complete Symphonies; Legendary Russian Conductors (CD)

Review Examples: (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)

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Symphony No. 1 Op. 10
2. Symphony No. 3 Op. 20 'First of May'

Disc: 2

1. Symphony No. 2 Op. 14
2. Theme ; Variations in B Flat Major Op. 3
3. Symphony No. 12 in D minor Op. 112 'The Year 1917'

Disc: 3

1. Symphony No. 4 in C minor Op. 43

Disc: 4

1. Music from the Gadfly
2. Symphony No. 5 in D minor Op. 47

Disc: 5

1. Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54
2. Symphony No. 14 in G minor, Op. 135

Disc: 6

1. Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60

Disc: 7

1. Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65

Disc: 8

1. Festive Overture Op. 96
2. Scherzo for Orchestra in F Sharp minor Op. 1
3. Symphony No. 9 in E Flat Major
4. Symphony No. 15 in a Minor Op. 141 (1971)

Disc: 9

1. Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93

Disc: 10

1. Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 'The Year 1905'

Disc: 11

1. Incidental Music for King Lear, Op. 58A
2. Symphony No. 13 'Babi Yar'

Disc: 12

1. Bonus Disc of the Live Legendary World Premiere (1954) of Symphony No. 10 in E minor Op. 93 with the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra/ Mravinsky