Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10
Dimitri Shostakovich (Composer)
Vasily Petrenko (Conductor)
Royal Liverpool Philarmonic Orchestra (Orchestra)
Audio CD (2010)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Naxos
SPARS Code: DDD
This performance goes right to the top. Not since the amazing mono Ancerl recording has there been a version of this work of such intensity, such expressive urgency, and (yes, believe it or not) such incredible orchestral playing. It's impossible to praise the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic enough: they put their London colleagues to shame. The cellos and basses have a dark, tactile presence in pianissimo not heard since the old Kondrashin Melodiya recording. The horns play the daylights out of their solos in the first and third movements, while Petrenko has the violins sustaining, articulating, and phrasing the climax of the first movement with a passion and grit that's beyond praise.
