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Twenty years in the making, this 2007 cycle of the complete symphonies of Shostakovich marks a milestone in the career of Vladimir Ashkenazy. The Russian émigré pianist turned conductor began the cycle with the Royal Philharmonic in 1987 with the Fifth and followed that with the First and Sixth in 1988, the Second and Ninth in 1989, the Tenth and Fifthteenth in 1990, the Eighth in 1991, and the Third and Twelfth in 1992. He shifted to the St. Petersburg Philharmonic for the Eleventh in 1994 and the Seventh in 1995, and then to the NHK Symphony for the Thirteenth in 2000, and, finally, the Fourth and Fourteenth in 2006. Whatever the orchestra and whenever the date, Ashkenazy's fundamental approach to the composer remained unchanged: this is Shostakovich played big, bright, brawny, and above all heroic. There's passion in his First and pathos in his Eighth, rhetoric in his Second and Third and realism in his Eleventh and Twelfth, but above all there's courage in his Fifth, bravery in his Seventh, triumph in his Tenth, strength in his Thirteenth, and against-all-odds victory in his Fifthteenth. The Fourth and Fourteenth, the last recorded symphonies, are leaner in texture, darker in tone, and sterner in manner then the rest but no less persuasive. Each orchestra's playing is highly individualistic -- the English Royal Philharmonic is warmly colored, the Russian St. Petersburg Philharmonic is strongly rhythmic, and the Japanese NHK Symphony is brilliantly virtuosic -- but each plays with consummate musicality and obvious affection for Ashkenazy. Considering the variety of venues, Decca's lush digital sound is remarkably consistent. Compared with Barshai's ardent authenticity, Mravinsky's grim austerity, Kondrashin's urgent advocacy, and Rozhdestvensky's violent irony, Ashkenazy's direct approach may seem too straightforward for some listeners, but his honesty, sincerity, and efficacy cannot be denied.
By the way, the NHK Fourth is a new recording. Ashkenazy first recorded the work in 1989 with the Royal Philharmonic. And for the record, the earlier performance is bigger, brighter, brawnier, and more unambiguously heroic than the later performance.
© TiVo
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Symphony No. 1, Op. 10 (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1989 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1989 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1989 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1989 Decca Music Group Limited
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54 (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1989 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1989 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1989 Decca Music Group Limited
DISC 2
Festive Overture, Op.96 (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer
℗ 1994 Decca Music Group Limited
October - Symphonic Poem, Op.131 (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer
℗ 1994 Decca Music Group Limited
Symphony No.2 in B major, Op.14 - 'To October' (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Paul Myers, Producer - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Brighton Festival Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Alexander Bezimensky, Author
℗ 1994 Decca Music Group Limited
Song of the Forests - Oratorio, Op. 81 (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer - Nikita Storojew, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Brighton Festival Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Evgenij Dolmatovskij, Author
℗ 1994 Decca Music Group Limited
New London Children's Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer - Brighton Festival Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Evgenij Dolmatovskij, Author
℗ 1994 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer - Nikita Storojew, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Brighton Festival Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Evgenij Dolmatovskij, Author
℗ 1994 Decca Music Group Limited
New London Children's Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer - Evgenij Dolmatovskij, Author
℗ 1994 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer - Brighton Festival Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Evgenij Dolmatovskij, Author
℗ 1994 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer - Brighton Festival Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Mikhail Kotliarov, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Evgenij Dolmatovskij, Author
℗ 1994 Decca Music Group Limited
New London Children's Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer - Nikita Storojew, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Brighton Festival Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Mikhail Kotliarov, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Evgenij Dolmatovskij, Author
℗ 1994 Decca Music Group Limited
DISC 3
Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112 "The Year 1917" (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer - Colin Moorfoot, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1994 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer - Colin Moorfoot, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1994 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Rabih Abou-Khalil, Producer - Colin Moorfoot, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1994 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer - Colin Moorfoot, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1994 Decca Music Group Limited
Symphony No. 3, Op. 20 - "1st of May" (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer - Colin Moorfoot, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Simyon Kirsanov, Author
℗ 1994 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer - Colin Moorfoot, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Simyon Kirsanov, Author
℗ 1994 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer - Colin Moorfoot, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Simyon Kirsanov, Author
℗ 1994 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir David Willcocks, Conductor, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer - The Bach Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Colin Moorfoot, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Simyon Kirsanov, Author
℗ 1994 Decca Music Group Limited
DISC 4
Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43 (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - NHK Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2007 NHK Symphony Orchestra
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - NHK Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2007 NHK Symphony Orchestra
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - NHK Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2007 NHK Symphony Orchestra
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - NHK Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2007 NHK Symphony Orchestra
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - NHK Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2007 NHK Symphony Orchestra
DISC 5
Symphony No. 5 In D Minor, Op. 47 (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Paul Myers, Producer - John Dunkerley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1988 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Paul Myers, Producer - John Dunkerley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1988 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Paul Myers, Producer - John Dunkerley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1988 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Paul Myers, Producer - John Dunkerley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1988 Decca Music Group Limited
Five Fragments, Op. 42 (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Paul Myers, Producer - John Dunkerley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1988 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Paul Myers, Producer - John Dunkerley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1988 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Paul Myers, Producer - John Dunkerley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1988 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Paul Myers, Producer - John Dunkerley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1988 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Paul Myers, Producer - John Dunkerley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1988 Decca Music Group Limited
DISC 6
Shostakovich broadcasts from besieged Leningrad in 1941 (Not Applicable)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Speaker, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Not Applicable, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1941 Decca Music Group Limited
Symphony No. 7, Op. 60 - "Leningrad" (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer
℗ 1997 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer
℗ 1997 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer
℗ 1997 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer
℗ 1997 Decca Music Group Limited
DISC 7
Funeral & Triumphal Prelude, Op.130 (In memory of the heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad) (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer
℗ 1993 Decca Music Group Limited
Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65 (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer
℗ 1993 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer
℗ 1993 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer
℗ 1993 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer
℗ 1993 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - John Dunkerley, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor, MainArtist - Andrew Cornall, Producer
℗ 1993 Decca Music Group Limited
Album review
Twenty years in the making, this 2007 cycle of the complete symphonies of Shostakovich marks a milestone in the career of Vladimir Ashkenazy. The Russian émigré pianist turned conductor began the cycle with the Royal Philharmonic in 1987 with the Fifth and followed that with the First and Sixth in 1988, the Second and Ninth in 1989, the Tenth and Fifthteenth in 1990, the Eighth in 1991, and the Third and Twelfth in 1992. He shifted to the St. Petersburg Philharmonic for the Eleventh in 1994 and the Seventh in 1995, and then to the NHK Symphony for the Thirteenth in 2000, and, finally, the Fourth and Fourteenth in 2006. Whatever the orchestra and whenever the date, Ashkenazy's fundamental approach to the composer remained unchanged: this is Shostakovich played big, bright, brawny, and above all heroic. There's passion in his First and pathos in his Eighth, rhetoric in his Second and Third and realism in his Eleventh and Twelfth, but above all there's courage in his Fifth, bravery in his Seventh, triumph in his Tenth, strength in his Thirteenth, and against-all-odds victory in his Fifthteenth. The Fourth and Fourteenth, the last recorded symphonies, are leaner in texture, darker in tone, and sterner in manner then the rest but no less persuasive. Each orchestra's playing is highly individualistic -- the English Royal Philharmonic is warmly colored, the Russian St. Petersburg Philharmonic is strongly rhythmic, and the Japanese NHK Symphony is brilliantly virtuosic -- but each plays with consummate musicality and obvious affection for Ashkenazy. Considering the variety of venues, Decca's lush digital sound is remarkably consistent. Compared with Barshai's ardent authenticity, Mravinsky's grim austerity, Kondrashin's urgent advocacy, and Rozhdestvensky's violent irony, Ashkenazy's direct approach may seem too straightforward for some listeners, but his honesty, sincerity, and efficacy cannot be denied.
By the way, the NHK Fourth is a new recording. Ashkenazy first recorded the work in 1989 with the Royal Philharmonic. And for the record, the earlier performance is bigger, brighter, brawnier, and more unambiguously heroic than the later performance.
© TiVo
About the album
- 12 disc(s) - 89 track(s)
- Total length: 12:36:43
- Main artists: Vladimir Ashkenazy
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Decca Music Group Ltd.
- Genre: Classical
© 2007 Decca Music Group Limited This Compilation ℗ 2007 Decca Music Group Limited
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