Mariss Jansons - Shostakovich: The Complete Symphonies [10CD Box Set] (2006)

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Artist: Mariss Jansons
Title: Shostakovich: The Complete Symphonies
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: EMI Classics / Warner Classics [0946 3 65300 2 4]
Genre: Classical
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+.cue, log)
Total Time: 12:02:11
Total Size: 1.61 gb / 2.60 gb
WebSite: Album Preview

To celebrate the 100th birthday of the great Soviet composer Dmitry Shostakovich, Mariss Jansons assembled eight of the world's finest orchestras to determine which is the best of his 15 symphonies. There is no doubt that Jansons is the man for the job. Trained under Mravinsky and long steeped in Shostakovich's music, Jansons brings a lifetimes' love and intimacy to his interpretations -- not to mention a terrific baton technique and an unfailing sense of tempo. Listening to these performances recorded between 1988 and 2005, one is consistently aware of Jansons' unwavering conviction that while all Shostakovich's symphonies are great music and some of them are greater than others, each one deserves his best effort. In the lesser symphonies, he makes the strongest possible case for the ideological inanities of the Second and Third and Social Realist banalities of the Eleventh and Twelfth and makes us appreciate the musical worth in work done for the Party. In the better symphonies, Jansons finds the bone-deep humanity of the Seventh and Eighth and the bitterest ironies in the Fifth and Tenth and makes us experience our common terror and exaltation. And in the best symphonies, Jansons explores the existential profundities of the Fourth and Fifteenth and makes us connect to our inner atheist. Some orchestras are perhaps better than others -- the Wiener Philharmoniker's Fifth is absolutely incandescent -- and some orchestras are surely more apt than others -- the St. Petersburg Philharmonic is clearly the band to get for the "Leningrad" Symphony -- but all of the orchestras' performances are as good as their best. Listeners looking for a digitally recorded cycle of Shostakovich's symphonies could not do better than this set.

:: TRACKLIST ::

CD 1
1. Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op.10: I. Allegretto - Allegro non troppo
2. Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op.10: II. Allegro
3. Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op.10: III. Lento - Largo
4. Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op.10: IV. Lento - Allegro molto - Adagio - Largo - Presto
5. Symphony No. 15 in A, Op.141: I. Allegretto
6. Symphony No. 15 in A, Op.141: II. Adagio
7. Symphony No. 15 in A, Op.141: III. Allegretto
8. Symphony No. 15 in A, Op.141: IV. Adagio

CD 2
1. Symphony No. 2, Op.14 'October': I. Largo
2. Symphony No. 2, Op.14 'October': II. Poco meno mosso - Allegro molto
3. Symphony No. 2, Op.14 'October': III. Chor: "An den Oktober" (first recording with factory siren)
4. Symphony No. 12, Op.112 'The Year 1917': I. "Revolutionäres Petrograd"/"Revolutionary Petrograd"
5. Symphony No. 12, Op.112 'The Year 1917': II. Razliv
6. Symphony No. 12, Op.112 'The Year 1917': III. Aurora
7. Symphony No. 12, Op.112 'The Year 1917': IV. Morgentöte der Menscheit/"Dawn of Humanity"

CD 3
1. Symphony No. 3 'First of May': I. Allegretto
2. Symphony No. 3 'First of May': II. Piu mosso
3. Symphony No. 3 'First of May': III. Allegro
4. Symphony No. 3 'First of May': IV. Andante
5. Symphony No. 3 'First of May': V. Allegro
6. Symphony No. 3 'First of May': VI. Andante
7. Symphony No. 3 'First of May': VII. Moderato 'Pervoe Maya'
8. Symphony No.14, Op.135 for Soprano, Bass and Chamber Orchestra: De Profundis
9. Symphony No.14, Op.135 for Soprano, Bass and Chamber Orchestra: Malaguena
10. Symphony No.14, Op.135 for Soprano, Bass and Chamber Orchestra: Loreley
11. Symphony No.14, Op.135 for Soprano, Bass and Chamber Orchestra: The Suicide (Der Selbstmörder)
12. Symphony No.14, Op.135 for Soprano, Bass and Chamber Orchestra: On the Alert (Auf der Wacht)
13. Symphony No.14, Op.135 for Soprano, Bass and Chamber Orchestra: Look here, Madame! (Sehen Sie, Madame!)
14. Symphony No.14, Op.135 for Soprano, Bass and Chamber Orchestra: At the Sante Jail (Im Kerker der Santé)
15. Symphony No.14, Op.135 for Soprano, Bass and Chamber Orchestra: Reply to the Sultan of Constantinople (Antwort der Zapor
16. Symphony No.14, Op.135 for Soprano, Bass and Chamber Orchestra: O Delvig! (An Delwig)
17. Symphony No.14, Op.135 for Soprano, Bass and Chamber Orchestra: The Poet's Death (Der Tod des Dichters)
18. Symphony No.14, Op.135 for Soprano, Bass and Chamber Orchestra: Conclusion (Schlußstück)

CD 4
1. Symphony No. 4, Op.43: I. Allegretto poco moderato
2. Symphony No. 4, Op.43: II. Moderato con moto
3. Symphony No. 4, Op.43: III. Largo - Allegro
4. Suite from the Gadfly Film Music, Op.97a: No. 8: Romance
5. Suite from the Gadfly Film Music, Op.97a: No. 3: Folk feast

CD 5
1. Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op.47: Moderato
2. Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op.47: Allegretto
3. Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op.47: Largo
4. Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op.47: Allegro non troppo
5. Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op.54: I. Largo
6. Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op.54: II. Allegro
7. Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op.54: III. Presto

CD 6
1. Symphony No.7 in C Major, Op.60 'Leningrad': I. Allegretto
2. Symphony No.7 in C Major, Op.60 'Leningrad': II. Moderato (poco allegretto)
3. Symphony No.7 in C Major, Op.60 'Leningrad': III. Adagio
4. Symphony No.7 in C Major, Op.60 'Leningrad': IV. Allegro non troppo

CD 7
1. Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, Op.65: I. Adagio - Allegro non troppo - Adagio
2. Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, Op.65: II. Allegretto
3. Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, Op.65: III. Allegro non troppo -
4. Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, Op.65: IV. Largo -
5. Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, Op.65: V. Allegretto
6. Mariss Jansons in rehearsal

CD 8
1. Symphony No. 9 in E Flat, Op.70: I. Allegro
2. Symphony No. 9 in E Flat, Op.70: II. Moderato
3. Symphony No. 9 in E Flat, Op.70: III. Presto
4. Symphony No. 9 in E Flat, Op.70: IV. Largo
5. Symphony No. 9 in E Flat, Op.70: V. Allegretto
6. Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op.93: I. Moderato
7. Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op.93: II. Allegro
8. Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op.93: III. Allegretto - Largo - Più mosso
9. Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op.93: IV. Andante -
10. Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op.93: Allegro

CD 9
1. Symphony No. 11 in G Minor, Op.103 'The year 1905': I. Tha Palace Square (Adagio)
2. Symphony No. 11 in G Minor, Op.103 'The year 1905': II. The 9th January (Allegro)
3. Symphony No. 11 in G Minor, Op.103 'The year 1905': III. In Memorium (Adagio)
4. Symphony No. 11 in G Minor, Op.103 'The year 1905': IV. The Toscin (Allegro non troppo)
5. Jazz Suite No. 1: I. Waltz
6. Jazz Suite No. 1: II. Polka
7. Jazz Suite No. 1: III. Foxtrot
8. VI. Waltz 2 from Jazz Suite No. 2
9. Tahiti Trot (Tea for Two), Op.16

CD 10
1. Symphony No. 13 in B Flat Minor, Op.113: I. Babi Jar/Babi Yar
2. Symphony No. 13 in B Flat Minor, Op.113: II. Der Witz/Humour
3. Symphony No. 13 in B Flat Minor, Op.113: III. Im Laden/At the store
4. Symphony No. 13 in B Flat Minor, Op.113: IV. Ängst/Fears
5. Symphony No. 13 in B Flat Minor, Op.113: V. Karriere/Career

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