Shostakovich Orchetral

Dmitrij Kitajenko, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln - Dmitri Shostakovich: The Symphonies [12CDs] (2025)

Dmitrij Kitajenko, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln - Dmitri Shostakovich: The Symphonies [12CDs] (2025)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 3,2 Gb | Total time: 12:32:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | # C7435 | Recorded: 2002-2004

Dmitry Shostakovich’s Symphonies are arguably the most impressive symphonic cycle of the 20th century – certainly, if you don’t count Gustav Mahler. The depth and variety of these 15 Symphonies, so closely tied to Shostakovich’s personality and the times he lived in, make it particularly rewarding to listen to different interpretations. Dmitrij Kitajenko’s survey, recorded between 2002 and 2004, has found its place among the great cycles, both for its artistic merits and its reference sonics, the wide dynamic range and the impassioned playing of the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne that the native Leningrad native Dmitrij Kitajenko obtains from his musicians. 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death.
Lise de la Salle, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Lawrence Foster - Shostakovich, Liszt, Prokofiev: Piano Concertos (2006)

Lise de la Salle, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Lawrence Foster - Shostakovich, Liszt, Prokofiev: Piano Concertos (2006)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 59:28 | 277 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naïve | Catalog: V 5053

Pianist Lise de la Salle has a big tone and a strong technique, but while she is surely up to the technical requirements of Prokofiev's and Shostakovich's first piano concertos, she seems out of her depth in their interpretive demands. She can pound her way through the muscular rhythms and massive sonorities in the outer movements of Prokofiev's concerto but appears immune to the lyrical poetry in the legato lines of the work's central Andante assai.
Klaus Mäkelä, Oslo Philharmonic - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 (2024)

Klaus Mäkelä, Oslo Philharmonic - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 (2024)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 643 Mb | Total time: 02:25:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 485 4637 | Recorded: 2022, 2023

The music of Shostakovich has been core to Klaus and the Oslo Philharmonic’s programming from the start of their relationship, and they first performed Symphony no. 5 in November 2019 - before Klaus took up his tenure as Chief Conductor. A special performance of the 5th symphony in Oslo on 14th August will celebrate the release of this album on Decca Classics. Mäkelä & the Philharmonic will go on to perform the symphonies on tour later this year, including concerts at Salzburg Festival and Musikfest, Berlin.
Lydia Mordkovitch, Emma Young, Clifford Benson - Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Alfred Schnittke: Violin Sonatas (1991)

Sergey Prokofiev: Sonata in D, Op. 115 & Sonata in C, Op. 56;
Dmitri Shostakovich: Violin Sonata, Op. 134;
Alfred Schnittke: Praeludium D. Shostakovich
Lydia Mordkovitch, violin; Emma Young, violin; Clifford Benson, piano

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 253 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 147 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 8988 | Time: 01:02:00

Recordings such as this superb one serve to remind us that though we may think we know the output of the major composers, there are still treasures to be discovered. Works for individual instruments find their way into recital programs but often lie in shadow of the 'big works' for the concert.
Dmitrij Kitajenko, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln - Dmitri Shostakovich: The Symphonies [12CDs] (2025)

Dmitrij Kitajenko, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln - Dmitri Shostakovich: The Symphonies [12CDs] (2025)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 3,2 Gb | Total time: 12:32:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | # C7435 | Recorded: 2002-2004

Dmitry Shostakovich’s Symphonies are arguably the most impressive symphonic cycle of the 20th century – certainly, if you don’t count Gustav Mahler. The depth and variety of these 15 Symphonies, so closely tied to Shostakovich’s personality and the times he lived in, make it particularly rewarding to listen to different interpretations. Dmitrij Kitajenko’s survey, recorded between 2002 and 2004, has found its place among the great cycles, both for its artistic merits and its reference sonics, the wide dynamic range and the impassioned playing of the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne that the native Leningrad native Dmitrij Kitajenko obtains from his musicians. 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death.
Royal Liverpool PO, Vasily Petrenko - Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 'The Year 1905' (2009) [Re-Up]

Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 'The Year 1905' (2009)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Petrenko

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 217 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 141 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.572082 | Time: 00:57:35

The good news is this recording of Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony is in the same class as the best ever made. The even better news is it's the start of a projected series of recordings of all the Soviet master's symphonies. Vasily Petrenko has demonstrated before this disc that he is among the most talented of young Russian conductors with superb recordings of Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony and of selected ballet suites. But neither of those recordings can compare with this Eleventh. Paired as before with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Petrenko turns in a full-scale riot of a performance that is yet tightly controlled and cogently argued. Said to depict the failed revolution of 1905, Shostakovich's Eleventh is not often treated with the respect it deserves, except, of course, by Yevgeny Mravinsky, the greatest of Shostakovich conductors whose two accounts have been deemed the most searing on record. Until now: Petrenko respects the composer's score and his intentions by unleashing a performance of staggering immediacy and violence, a virtuoso performance of immense drama, enormous tragedy, and overwhelming power.
Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Philharmonia Orchestra - Santtu conducts Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 9 (2024)

Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Philharmonia Orchestra - Santtu conducts Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 9 (2024)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 250 Mb | Total time: 58:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philharmonia Records | # SIGCD877 | Recorded: 2023

“Santtu conducts Shostakovich” is the fourth album from Philharmonia Records, featuring Shostakovich’s colourful Sixth Symphony alongside his subversive and sardonic Ninth Symphony. Conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali, these performances were recorded at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in 2023.
]John Storgårds, BBC Philharmonic - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13; Arvo Pärt: De profundis (2024)

John Storgårds, BBC Philharmonic - Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13; Arvo Pärt: De profundis (2024)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 278 Mb | Total time: 69:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos Records | # CHSA 5335 | Recorded: 2023

John Storgårds’s acclaimed series of Shostakovich symphonies continues with this recording of Symphony No. 13. The BBC Philharmonic is joined by the bass-baritone Albert Dohmen and the Estonian National Male Choir. The symphony, subtitled ‘Babiy Yar’, caused a great deal of tension and controversy in the lead-up to its première, in December 1962 – not because of the music, but the poetry. Shostakovich had chosen to set Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s Babiy Yar. Ostensibly an outraged response to the lack of a memorial for the thousands of Jews murdered by the Nazis and dumped in a ravine near Kyiv, the poem implicitly criticised the anti-Semitism then still rife in the Soviet Union.
Anna Vinnitskaya - Piano Dances: Ravel, Shostakovich, Widmann (2024)

Anna Vinnitskaya - Piano Dances: Ravel, Shostakovich, Widmann (2024)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & no Log) ~ 201 Mb | Total time: 62:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 1044 | Recorded: 2023

Anna Vinnitskaya celebrates dance, or rather the dances of composers from very different periods and styles: Ravel, Shostakovich and Widmann. 'In all these works, you can feel in some way transported to the world of childhood. Because I believe the childhoods of each of these three composers are reflected there', says the pianist. In his Valses nobles et sentimentales, Ravel paid tribute to Schubert. A few years later, he transcribed for solo piano his ballet score La Valse, in which 'billowing clouds part from time to time, allowing us to glimpse waltzing couples'.
Tatiana Nikolaeva - Dmitri Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues for Piano, Op. 87 (2004) 3CD

Tatiana Nikolaeva - Dmitri Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues for Piano, Op. 87 (2004) 3CD
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 521 Mb | Scans included | Time: 02:48:21
Genre: Classical | Label: Melodiya | # MEL CD 10 00073-00075

Firma Melodiya presents a recording of Dmitri Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues performed by Tatiana Nikolayeva. Shostakovich came up with an idea of a polyphonic cycle in 1950 after he took part in the events dedicated to the 200th anniversary of J.S. Bach’s death in Leipzig. As a jury member of the International Piano Competition for the best performance of Bach’s music, Shostakovich was a witness of an unconditional triumph of the young Soviet pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva who won the first prize. Upon finishing the new opus in a surprisingly short period of time (October 1950 to February 1951), Shostakovich dedicated it to Nikolayeva who performed it for the first time in 1952 in Leningrad. Since then the 24 Preludes and Fugues have been played by many pianists, but Tatiana Nikolayeva’s interpretation is still considered a model one. Tatiana Nikolayeva made this recording of Dmitri Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues in 1987.