Limited Edition Deluxe Boxed Set

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)

Artists

Mariinsky Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) and London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), Tatiana Monogarova, Nina Romanova, Vitaly Gromadsky, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra, Yurlov Russian Choir, Mariinsky (Kirov) Orchestra, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ussr Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Saint Petersburg Chamber Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Valéry Gergiev, Evgeny Mravinsky, Rudolf Barshai, Maxim Shostakovich, Vladimir Jurowski, Konstantin Ivanov, Kiril Kondrashin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Eduard Serov