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Background: Mark Wigglesworth was described in BBC Music Magazine as 'the finest Shostakovich interpreter of his generation'. He returns with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic with this recording of Shostakovich's Symphonies No.9 and No.12. As Mark Wigglesworth observes in his own liner notes, these two works posed serious problems for their creator. The Ninth Symphony was generally expected to be a celebration of Stalin and the imminent victory over the Nazis. Shostakovich wanted to avoid any such programmatic interpretations and therefore came up with what Wigglesworth describes as 'a pure and perfect, almost neoclassical work'. 16 years later, Shostakovich was commissioned to write a work commemorating Lenin and the 1917 Revolution. Again reluctant to comply with the expectations of the Soviet state, he now took exactly the opposite approach and wrote his most programmatic symphony, using his well-honed film music technique to conjure up brilliantly the atmospheres and events of the revolution, thereby avoiding having to make any personal comments on it or its leaders. |
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COMPOSER: Dmitri Shostakovich |
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Please note - The music on this Hybrid Super Audio CD can be played back in Stereo (CD and SACD) as well as in 5.0 Surround sound (SACD) - Dec-2007 5 star BBC Music Mag. |
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