Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 14 London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sergei Leiferkus and Tatiana Monogarova & Vladimir Jurowski

• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1075): Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 54:
• 1 Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 54: I. Largo 17:02
• 2 Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 54: II. Allegro 05:50
• 3 Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 54: III. Presto 07:18
• Symphony No. 14 in G Minor, Op. 135:
• 4 Symphony No. 14 in G Minor, Op. 135: I. De profundis 04:44
• 5 Symphony No. 14 in G Minor, Op. 135: II. Malaguena 02:39
• 6 Symphony No. 14 in G Minor, Op. 135: III. Lorelei 07:34
• 7 Symphony No. 14 in G Minor, Op. 135: IV. The Suicide 06:48
• 8 Symphony No. 14 in G Minor, Op. 135: V. On Watch 02:50
• 9 Symphony No. 14 in G Minor, Op. 135: VI. Madam, look! 02:02
• 10 Symphony No. 14 in G Minor, Op. 135: VII. In Prison 08:58
• 11 Symphony No. 14 in G Minor, Op. 135: VIII. The Zaporozhian Cossack's Reply to the Sultan of Constantinople 01:57
• 12 Symphony No. 14 in G Minor, Op. 135: IX. Oh Delvig, Delvig! 03:55
• 13 Symphony No. 14 in G Minor, Op. 135: X. The Death of a Poet 04:44
• 14 Symphony No. 14 in G Minor, Op. 135: XI. Epilogue (Alla marcia) 01:18
• Total Runtime 01:17:39

Info for Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 14

Growing up in Moscow, with a conductor father and a composer grandfather who was a friend and colleague of Shostakovich, Vladimir Jurowski absorbed Shostakovich's music (and the climate of its composition) into his blood, and his personal connection with it is palpable in these recordings.

Both works were recorded live in concert at Southbank Centre. The 2013 performance of Symphony No. 6 was part of Southbank Centres festival The Rest Is Noise, a year-long exploration of 20thcentury music for which the LPO won the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Ensemble.

In Symphony No. 14, a dark song-cycle setting poems by various authors on the subject of death, Jurowski is joined by soloists Tatiana Monogarova (soprano) and Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), regular collaborators with the LPO, who express the haunting sentiment of the songs in their impeccable native Russian. This 2006 performance Jurowskis first Shostakovich with the LPO was described by the Financial Times as a wonderfully felt performance in the way conductor and orchestra articulate and sustain this intimate, death-ridden song cycle. Its hard to imagine a more intense female soloist than Tatiana Monogarova, while Sergei Leiferkus brings all his authority to the baritone part.

Growing up in Moscow, with a conductor father and a composer grandfather who was a friend and colleague of Shostakovich, Vladimir Jurowski absorbed Shostakovich's music (and the climate of its composition) into his blood, and his personal connection with it is palpable in these recordings. Both works were recorded live in concert at Southbank Centre. The 2013 performance of Symphony No. 6 was part of Southbank Centres festival The Rest Is Noise, a year-long exploration of 20thcentury music for which the LPO won the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Ensemble. Review of the Symphony No. 6 performance: An exceptional account of Shostakovich 6 affecting and scintillating, hugely involving, the playing concentrated, unanimous and full of character. From Stewart McIlwhams piccolo to the richly mottled double basses via Simon Carringtons timpani, this was the LPO in fabulous form responding to its Principal Conductor who really knows how this score goes. (Classical Source)

"The LPO's string trills seem to express Shostakovich's rage. Performance ***** Recording ***** RECORDING OF THE MONTH (BBC)

"Not since Galina Vishnevskaya have I heard quite such committed singing in this extraordinary music. Strongly recommended." (Gramophone)

"if the unusual coupling appeals, this disc is worth investigating." (IRR)

"[Jurowski] pushes powerfully through the scherzo...never overstating incidental detail...Monogarova is splendid...applying 21st-century pose and discipline to the timbre and attitude of the old-style Russian dramatic soprano. Not since Galina Vishnevskaya have I heard quite such committed singing in this extraordinary music." (Gramophone Magazine)

Tatiana Monogarova, soprano
Sergei Leiferkus, baritone
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor

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