To celebrate the 100th birthday of the great Soviet composer Dmitry Shostakovich, Mariss Jansons assembled eight of the world's finest orchestras to determine which is the best of his 15 symphonies. There is no doubt that Jansons is the man for the job. Trained under Mravinsky and long steeped in Shostakovich's music, Jansons brings a lifetimes' ...
Considering that Mariss Jansons recorded the Mussorgsky material in this two-disc with the Oslo Philharmonic in the Konserthus in Oslo in 1988 and the Rimsky-Korsakov material with the London Philharmonic in Abbey Road Studio in London in 1994, the sound and the performances are amazingly consistent. Naturally, the orchestras are distinctly ...
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