Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 15 (2008)

Though not entirely a great recording, Roman Kofman and the Beethoven Orchester Bonn's coupling of Shostakovich's Third and Fifteenth is certainly one of the best discs in their cycle of the Soviet composer's symphonies. Kofman's Third is only so-so, but, then, the Third is only so-so, a ramshackled work called May Day that wanders through thickets of grinding atonality on its way to a tonal communist hymn that Kofman's solid and unimaginative reading does nothing to redeem. But Kofman's Fifteenth is something special, a ... Read More

Though not entirely a great recording, Roman Kofman and the Beethoven Orchester Bonn's coupling of Shostakovich's Third and Fifteenth is certainly one of the best discs in their cycle of the Soviet composer's symphonies. Kofman's Third is only so-so, but, then, the Third is only so-so, a ramshackled work called May Day that wanders through thickets of grinding atonality on its way to a tonal communist hymn that Kofman's solid and unimaginative reading does nothing to redeem. But Kofman's Fifteenth is something special, a hard and unflinching look into the void of death that allows no respite from its searing intensity. The Fifteenth was Shostakovich's symphonic swansong, and Kofman expresses its austere and awesome ironies in a harrowing performance that nearly rivals the finest ever recorded: Mravinsky's, Kondrashin's, and, above all, Maxim Shostakovich's. The Beethoven Orchestra of Bonn plays with consummate musicality, and MDG's super audio sound is amazingly vivid. Anyone who admires Shostakovich's... Read Less

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