Storgårds Shostakovich Symphonies
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 2 'To October'; Symphony No. 5
BBC Philharmonic, CBSO Chorus, John Storgårds
This strong, clearly articulated and sonically vivid performance from John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic, alongside the highly charged singing of the CBSO Chorus, makes the best possible... —
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Another terrific release from this source. —
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Storgårds in Manchester gives an appropriately humanised interpretation, set on a wide sound stage that is one of Chandos’s natural best. The cinematic opening twitches with inner life, all... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14; Six Verses of Marina Tsvetayeva
Elizabeth Atherton (soprano), Peter Rose (bass), Jess Dandy (contralto), BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds
The BBC Philharmonic under John Storgårds, in this third instalment of their symphonic Shostakovich series, are exemplary, whether in the sotto voce opening of the Symphony, or in the horrif... —
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13; Arvo Part: de Profundis
Estonian National Male Choir, Albert Dohmen (baritone), BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds
John Storgårds has shown his affinity for the composer in every disc of this complete series of the Shostakovich symphonies (still in progress). Here, he does not strive after extremes or try... —
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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 'the First of May'; Two Scherzos
BBC Philharmonic, Hallé Choir, John Storgårds
As in his previous Shostakovich recordings, Storgårds is extremely good at generating a cleanly articulated and pristine sound even in the work's most frenzied passages. —
