PENTATONE
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 / Jarvi, Russian National Orchestra
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Details
- Composer
- SHOSTAKOVICH, DMITRY
- Artist
- Jarvi
- Format
- SACD
- Label
- PENTATONE
- Released
- Apr 14, 2015
- Catalog #
- PTC5186511
- UPC
- 827949051166
About
It is hard to escape the incredible pull of Symphony No. 7, knowing the background to its composition and its general significance. Shostakovich began to work on the actual composition in July 1941 in Leningrad, where he wrote the first three movements under constant attack from the enemy; and after his evacuation from the city besieged by German troops, he completed the Finale and the instrumentation in Kuibyschev in December 1941.
Reviews:
Paavo Järvi's Leningrad is the opposite of his father's 1988 epic with the Scottish National Orchestra - light, laconic and sonically lean where Neeme's recording was spectacularly big in every way.
– BBC Music Magazine
Järvi and his engineers offer ruthless clarity and precision, exposing a rogue E flat clarinet with a flash of the theme at one point (never heard that before) and lacerating flutter-tongued trumpets as the shock and awe peaks…there is no denying the excellence of the playing.
– Gramophone
Reviews:
Paavo Järvi's Leningrad is the opposite of his father's 1988 epic with the Scottish National Orchestra - light, laconic and sonically lean where Neeme's recording was spectacularly big in every way.
– BBC Music Magazine
Järvi and his engineers offer ruthless clarity and precision, exposing a rogue E flat clarinet with a flash of the theme at one point (never heard that before) and lacerating flutter-tongued trumpets as the shock and awe peaks…there is no denying the excellence of the playing.
– Gramophone
Tracklist 4 tracks
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1 I. Allegretto 26:17
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Allegretto
- Duration
- 26:17
- Composer
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Ensemble
- Russian National Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paavo Järvi
-
2 II. Moderato (poco allegretto) 11:45
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Moderato (poco allegretto)
- Duration
- 11:45
- Composer
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Ensemble
- Russian National Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paavo Järvi
-
3 III. Adagio 17:16
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Adagio
- Duration
- 17:16
- Composer
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Ensemble
- Russian National Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paavo Järvi
-
4 IV. Allegro non troppo 17:25
- Track
- 4
- Title
- IV. Allegro non troppo
- Duration
- 17:25
- Composer
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Ensemble
- Russian National Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paavo Järvi