Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Symphonie n°10 (2010) [Official Digital Download]

These two hugely contrasting symphonies come from the opposite ends of Shostakovich’s life and career. The Second Symphony was written to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Bolshevik October Revolution. Its advanced idiom of experimental textures and abstract effects can perhaps be best described as organised musical chaos. The Fifteenth was Shostakovich’s last symphony and is filled with remarkable contrasts, from the rollicking quotes from Rossini’s William Tell Overture and eerie references to Wagner’s Götterdämmerung and Tristan und Isolde, to the last and perhaps most imaginative of the composer's symphonic passacaglias.

“Petrenko's hallmark of winning careful but always meaningful articulation from his Liverpool players is as apparent in the outlines of the woodwind and brass uproar at the centre of the early collage as it is in the last Symphony's skeletal solos…As so often, Petrenko shows the deepest sensitivity in going straight to the heart of the matter, and forward sound-balances for violins and celesta especially serve him well.

TRACKLIST

1. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - I. Moderato
2. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - II. Allegro
3. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - III. Allegretto - Largo - Più mosso
4. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - IV. Andante - Allegro - L'istesso tempo



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