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Shostakovich's Symphony No.10 in Building a Library with Edward Seckerson and Andrew McGregor

Pianist Kathryn Stott assesses some of the best of the week's new releases, and Edward Seckerson picks his favourite recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No.10.

Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music.

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Pianist Kathryn Stott makes her pick of the best new releases

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Building a Library
Edward Seckerson chooses his favourite recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No.10 from the many available versions.

Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No.10 in E minor was premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky on 17 December 1953. In his memoirs, the composer revealed that he "wrote it right after Stalin's death and no one has yet guessed what the symphony is about. It's about Stalin and the Stalin years. The scherzo is a musical portrait of Stalin" - a startlingly brutal and terrifying movement in a 45-minute symphony which vividly encapsulates the tragedy, despair and violence of the Soviet regime under which Shostakovich lived.

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vassily Petrenko (cond.)
Naxos 8572461

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wind Serenade in B flat major K.361 'Gran Partita' (7th mvt)

    Performer: Nicolas Baldeyrou. Performer: Franck Amet. Performer: Gabriel Pidoux. Performer: H茅l猫ne Devilleneuve. Performer: Alexandre Chabod. Performer: Fran莽ois Miquel. Performer: David Dou莽ot. Performer: Thomas Quinquenel. Performer: David Guerrier. Performer: Hugues Viallon. Performer: Antoine Dreyfuss. Performer: Anne Broussard. Performer: Yann Dubost.
    • Mozart: Complete Works for Clarinet on Period Instruments, Vol. 1.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 7.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    L'aube blanche (La Chanson d'脠ve Op.95)

    Singer: Kate Lindsey. Performer: Eric Le Sage.
    • Samsara: R. Schumann & Faur茅.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 14.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quartet no.2 in A major Op.26 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Performer: Maria Nowak. Performer: Katarzyna Budnik-Ga艂膮zka. Performer: Yuya Okamoto.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto no.2 in E Major BWV.1053 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Beatrice Rana. Orchestra: Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
    • Bach: Keyboard Concertos, BWV 1052, 1053, 1054 & 1056.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Vissi d'arte (Tosca)

    Singer: Eleonora Buratto. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Puccini: Tosca.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 28.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Une barque sur l'oc茅an (Miroirs)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano.
    • Chandos.
    • 112.

  • Marin Marais

    Suite in G major (Rondeau)

    Performer: Fran莽ois Lazarevitch. Ensemble: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien.
    • Alpha.

  • Marin Marais

    Suite in C major (La Sautillante)

    Performer: Fran莽ois Lazarevitch. Ensemble: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien.
    • Alpha.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony no.6 in E flat minor Op.111 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • LSO Live.

  • Franz Schubert

    Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D. 965

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Joseph Middleton. Lyricist: Wilhelm M眉ller. Lyricist: Wilhelmina Christiane von Ch茅zy. Singer: Carolyn Sampson.
    • Schubert's Four Seasons.
    • BIS.
    • 106.

  • Gjermund Larsen

    Duett

    Music Arranger: 脴rjan Matre. Choir: Det norske jentekor. Performer: Gjermund Larsen. Performer: Frode Haltli. Director: Anne Karin Sundal-Ask.
    • 2L.

  • Mel Bonis

    M茅lisande (5 Pi猫ces Op.109)

    Performer: Joseph Moog.
    • Naive.

  • Xaver Scharwenka

    Tarantella

    Performer: Joseph Moog.
    • Naive.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Duke Bluebeard's Castle (4th Door)

    Orchestra: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Karina Canellakis.
    • Bart贸k: Duke Bluebeard's Castle.
    • Pentatone.
    • 105.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Duke Bluebeard's Castle (5th door)

    Performer: Rinat Shaham. Performer: G谩bor Bretz. Orchestra: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Karina Canellakis.
    • Pentatone.

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