If Solti's excitement or Bernstein's explosiveness are what you want in a Mahler Fifth, you might stay away from Jaap van Zweden's Fifth recorded live with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in January 2008. But if Bernard Haitink's sanity and de Waart's lucidity are more to your liking, this Fifth may be acceptable. Van Zweden's tempos are ...
It is somewhat ironic that Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony should today be one of his most popular, easily recognizable compositions for it was composed on the heels of savagely harsh criticism of his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District as a sort of appeasement to the detractors within the Stalinist regime. The Fifth Symphony was written ...
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