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stgclawson | Texas United States | 09/12/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"CD1

SYMPHONY No. 1 in F minor Op. 10

1. Allegretto 8:10

2. Allegro 4:45

3. Lento 7:43

4. Allegro molto 8:38

5. SYMPHONY No. 2 in B major Op. 14 for Chorus & Orchestra, "To October" 18:47

6. SYMPHONY No. 3 in E flat major Op. 20 for Chorus & Orchestra, "First of May" 26:43



Total: 75:03



Rundfunkchor

WDR Sinfonieorchester,

Rudolf Barshai



CD2

SYMPHONY No. 4 in C minor Op. 43

1. Allegretto poco moderato 27:15

2. Moderato con moto 8:45

3. Largo-allegro 26:04



Total: 62:07



WDR Sinfonieorchester,

Rudolf Barshai



CD3

SYMPHONY No. 5 in D minor Op. 47

1. Moderato 15:29

2. Allegretto 5:33

3. Largo 13:19

4. Allegro non troppo 11:19

SYMPHONY No. 6 in B minor Op. 54

5. Largo 18:50

6. Allegro 5:47

7. Presto 7:01



Total: 77:27



WDR Sinfonieorchester,

Rudolf Barshai



CD4

SYMPHONY No. 7 in C major Op. 60

"Leningrad"

1. War, allegretto 26:20

2. Memories, Moderato (poco allegretto) 10:24

3. My native Field, adagio 18:16

4. Victory, allegro non troppo 16:34



Total: 71:34



WDR Sinfonieorchester,

Rudolf Barshai



CD5

SYMPHONY No. 8 in C minor Op. 65

1. Adagio 27:27

2. Allegretto 6:42

3. Allegro non troppo 6:28

4. Largo 9:38

5. Allegretto 13:45



Total: 64:01



WDR Sinfonieorchester,

Rudolf Barshai



CD6

SYMPHONY No. 9 in E flat major Op. 70

1. Allegro 5:16

2. Moderato 5:42

3. Presto 2:54

4. Largo 3:00

5. Allegretto 6:51

SYMPHONY No. 10 in E minor Op. 93

6. Moderato 23:14

7. Allegro 4:31

8. Allegretto 12:08

9. Andante 12:19



Total: 76:15



WDR Sinfonieorchester,

Rudolf Barshai



CD7

SYMPHONY No. 11 in G minor Op. 103

"The Year 1905"

1. Palace Square: adagio 15:27

2. January 9-th: Allegro-adagio-allegro-adagio 18:44

3. Eternal Memory: adagio 11:28

4. The Toscin: Allegro non troppo-allegro- moderato-adagio-allegro 14:17



Total: 60:01



WDR Sinfonieorchester,

Rudolf Barshai



CD8

SYMPHONY No. 12 in D minor Op. 112

"The Year 1917"

"To the Memory of Lenin"

1. Revolutionary Petrograd: Moderato-allegro 12:46

2. Razliv: Adagio 10:04

3. Aurora: Allegro 4:08

4. The Dawn of Humanity: L'istesso tempo 10:08



Total: 37:07



WDR Sinfonieorchester,

Rudolf Barshai



CD9

SYMPHONY No. 13 in B flat minor for Bass, Chorus & Orchestra Op. 113

"Babi Yar"

1. Babi Yar: Adagio 17:09

2. Humour: Allegretto 8:28

3. In the Store: Adagio 12:44

4. Fears: Adagio 11:55

5. A Career: Allegretto 12:29



Total: 62:47



Sergei Aleksashkin, Bass

The Choral Academy Moscow

WDR Sinfonieorchester,

Rudolf Barshai



CD10

SYMPHONY No. 14, for Soprano, Bass, Strings & Percussion, Op. 135

1. De profundis (Bass; Garcia Lorca) 4:23

2. Malague-a (Soprano; Garcia Lorca) 2:50

3. Lorelei (Soprano & bass; Apollinaire) 8:00

4. The Suicide (Soprano; Apollinaire) 6:13

5. On Watch (Soprano; Apollinaire) 2:59

6. Madam, look! (Soprano & bass; Apollinaire) 1:32

7. In Prison, at the Sante Jail (Bass, Apollinaire) 8:20

8. The Zaporozhian Cossack's answer to the Sultan of Constantinople (Bass; Apollinaire) 2:07

9. O Delvig, Delvig (Bass; KYchelbecker) 3:44

10. The Death of the Poet (Soprano; Rilke) 4:23

11. Conclusion (Soprano & bass; Rilke) 1:04



Total: 45:38



Alla Simoni, soprano

Vladimir Vaneev, bass

WDR Sinfonieorchester,

Rudolf Barshai



CD11

Symphony No. 15 in A major Op. 141

1. Allegretto 8:19

2. Adagio-largo-adagio-allegretto 11:43

3. Allegretto 3:53

4. Adagio-allegretto-adagio-allegretto 13:58



Total: 37:54



WDR Sinfonieorchester,

Rudolf Barshai

"

Worthwhile for the Price

Music Is Everything | Colorado Springs, CO USA | 10/01/2009

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Much has been said about Rudolf Barshai's close association with Shostakovich. Barshai is considered an authority on Shostakovich, has arranged Shostakovich's string quartets into symphonies for small orchestra, has recorded much of Shostakovich's works, and yet hasn't left much of a stamp on Shostakovich's legacy via recordings. This 11-CD set of the complete Shostakovich symphonies with the WDR Symphony Orchestra is consistently good, but definitely not in the realm of "definitive." There is none of the gravitas and electricity of Bernstein's or Solti's interpretations, none of the edgy realism from the leading Russian recordings, and none of the polish of newer sets by Jansons, Jarvi and others. It's almost as though these performances are virtually stripped of interpretation--nothing but the notes, yet played well. Nonetheless, it was interesting to hear these works from that perspective; it forced me to focus on Shostakovich's writing instead of the orchestra or conductor. While this is certainly not the best complete set, and by far the best of the best can only be obtained by buying individual recordings of the best performances, at Brilliant Classics' bargain price this was worthwhile."