Shostakovich: The War Symphonies / Gergiev

Kirov Orchestra & Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43 - 3rd movement (conclusion) / Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 - 1st movement / Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54 - 2nd movement / Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 'Leningrad' - 1st movement / Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65 - 3rd movement / Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70 - 1st movement

Gramophone Magazine March 2006 “…brilliantly put together: expertly cut between speech and music, and accurately subtitled… Most valuable are the interviews with Shostakovich's surviving confidants, many of them deceased since the film was made in the mid-1990s. The musical extracts themselves are on the whole less well played than Gergiev's CD recordings yet in several instances, curiously superior as interpretations.”

Price: $18.98