Shostakovich: Symphony No.8 Orchestral & Concertos LSO Live

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**** (Excellent Album)

Yannick Millon - Classica magazine (France) - February 2019

"... Noseda (one-time principal guest conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre) has a firm handle on the depth and breadth of the symphony, chronicling his way through its empty wastes and bone-crushing upheavals of rolling percussion..."

Edward Seckerson – Gramophone magazine – January 2019

“Shostakovich’s Eights Symphony in a technically virtuoso and outstandingly structured performance which, however, lacks depth and emotional intensity.” ***

Uwe Krusch - Pizzicato magazine.lu – 24 December 2018

“…A superb live version, very much more than a souvenir of the concert.”

Roy Westbrook – MusicWeb-International.com – 13 December 2018

Album of the Week

“…Noseda’s broad, intense unfolding of the opening adagio builds up to a shattering climax, while the lighter succeeding moments drip with the composer’s anti-militaristic parody and bitter sarcasm. The largo — with brilliantly disciplined playing from the band — evokes a shocked reaction to the horrors of war, while the finale ebbs away into an exhausted nothingness. A graphic, questioning, ultimately despairing performance.”

Hugh Canning – The Sunday Times (Culture magazine) – 18 November 2018

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