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Shostakovich: Symphony No 8 – LSO Live

Shostakovich: Symphony No 8

  • Release date: 5 October 2018
    LSO0822 | 822231182221
    Booklet notes in English, French and German
    Total playing time: 65m 08s

    Producer: Nicholas Parker
    Engineering: Classic Sound Ltd
    Recorded live in DSD 128FS at the Barbican Hall, London
    April 2018

  • ★★★★★ ‘Noseda’s Shostakovich 8 with the London Symphony Orchestra is like no other.’
    Ludwig van Toronto (Lebrecht Listens)

    ‘Under the exemplary direction of Gianandrea Noseda, they have produced (in surround sound of the greatest impact) a highly competitive reading of striking weight and power.'
    Classical CD Choice

    ‘A graphic, questioning, ultimately despairing performance.’
    The Sunday Times – Album of the Week

    ‘Great pacing, and sense of slow burning... a really effective reading overall’
    BBC Radio 3 – Record Review

    Concert Reviews

    ‘It was all there in Gianandrea Noseda’s outstanding performance with the London Symphony Orchestra. With fluid, unshowy gestures, the Italian conductor let the music tell its own story.
    The Times

    ‘Such a fine performance, with the LSO on magnificent form’
    Classical Source

£9.99

Gianandrea Noseda 
London Symphony Orchestra


Composed against a cataclysmic backdrop of Stalinist oppression and the Second World War, Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony is a deeply affecting poem of suffering. The composer described it as ‘an attempt to reflect the terrible tragedy of war’, and it contains some of the most terrifying music he ever wrote. 

Here, Gianandrea Noseda conducts the London Symphony Orchestra with intensity and understanding, allowing the music to tell its own story as it travels from darkness into light, yearning more for peace than for victory. 

Composer   Dmitri Shostakovich
Conductor   Gianandrea Noseda
Performers   London Symphony Orchestra

Track list
   
1-5: Symphony No 8 in C Minor:
I. Adagio - Allegro non troppo
II. Allegretto
III. Allegro non troppo - attacca
IV. Largo - attacca

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