Dmitri Shostakovich - Complete Symphonies & Concertos (2015) [8 x DVD-9 + 2 x DVD-5]

Nobody is better suited to undertake such a challenge than Valery Gergiev and his Mariinsky Orchestra. Over a period of a year all 15 Symphonies and 6 Concertos have been recorded at Salle Pleyel in Paris. What an adventure for the artists and the big production team! Never before in the history of television has something like this been undertaken including the very first “Ring” for television at Bayreuth.
Dmitri Shostakovich is arguably one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. To understand his music one needs to see it in the context of his life, his social environment, the political situation, the unbelievable brutality with which the Communist Party enforced its ideological credo and the subtle ways with which Shostakovich succeeded in combining his innermost thoughts with the demands of Socialist Realism. He was a man of many faces. And beyond any doubt Dmitri Shostakovich was a musical genius.

Live from the Salle Pleyel, Paris 2013/14

Alena Baeva (violin), Mario Brunello (violoncello), Gautier Capuçon (violoncello), Veronika Dzhioeva (soprano), Timur Martynov (trumpet), Denis Matsuev (piano), Mikhail Petrenko (bass), Vadim Repin (violin), Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre / Valery Gergiev


Tracklist DVD01:

- Concerto for Piano, String Orchestra and Trumpet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35
Daniil Trifonov, piano; Timur Martynov, trumpet
- Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in F major, Op. 102
Denis Matsuev, piano
- Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10


Tracklist DVD02:

- Symphony No. 2 in B major, “To October”, for orchestra with mixed chorus, Op. 14
- Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70
- Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op. 141


Tracklist DVD03:

- Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43


Tracklist DVD04:

- Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, “The First of May”, for orchestra with mixed chorus, Op. 20
- Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54
- Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 107
Gautier Capucon, violoncello


Tracklist DVD05:

- Symphony No. 10 in E minor, op. 93


Tracklist DVD06:

- Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, “Babi Yar”, for bass, bass chorus and orchestra, Op. 113
Mikhail Petrenko, bass; Male Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre
- Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra No. 2 in G major, Op. 126
Mario Brunello, violoncello


Tracklist DVD07:

- Symphony No. 7 in C major, “Leningrad”, Op. 60
- Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in C sharp minor, Op. 129
Alena Baeva, violin


Tracklist DVD08:

- Symphony No. 11 in G minor, “The Year 1905”, Op. 103
- Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 (originally published as Op. 99)
Vadim Repin, violin


Tracklist DVD09:

- Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
- Symphony No. 14, for soprano, bass and chamber orchestra, Op. 135
Veronika Dzhioeva, soprano; Mikhail Petrenko, bass


Tracklist DVD10:

- Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65
- Symphony No. 12 in D minor, “The Year 1917”, Op. 112










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