Years ago, when his career was rising fast, there was a great deal of talk, excitement, and ultimate disappointment with highly anticipated recordings of Simon Rattle conducting Shostakovich's Fourth and Tenth symphonies. Both discs were with his old City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and neither of the recordings, it seemed, lived up to the hype surrounding their release. So finally, after years of maturation and a long hiatus from recording Shostakovich's works, Rattle has begun to record Shostakovich again -- his ...
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Years ago, when his career was rising fast, there was a great deal of talk, excitement, and ultimate disappointment with highly anticipated recordings of Simon Rattle conducting Shostakovich's Fourth and Tenth symphonies. Both discs were with his old City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and neither of the recordings, it seemed, lived up to the hype surrounding their release. So finally, after years of maturation and a long hiatus from recording Shostakovich's works, Rattle has begun to record Shostakovich again -- his first recordings of the composer's work in over a decade. Rattle first returned to the Soviet battleground in the first quarter of 2006, with a new disc that featured violinist Sarah Chang performing the composer's First Violin Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic.Now, fresh on the heels of his new immersion into the world of darkness and despair, Rattle brings star-studded soloists Karita Mattila and Thomas Quasthoff into a performance of Shostakovich's morbid and depressing Symphony...
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