Gianandrea Noseda is not the kind of conductor whose innovations reach out and grab the listener. His expertise resides partly in his work in preparing an orchestra, and the ease throughout with which the London Symphony Orchestra masters the variety of Shostakovich textures here is part of the key to the success of this pair of symphonies. These two pieces do not have the moods one would expect. The Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70, was written just as World War II was ending; in place of the desired and planned ...
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Gianandrea Noseda is not the kind of conductor whose innovations reach out and grab the listener. His expertise resides partly in his work in preparing an orchestra, and the ease throughout with which the London Symphony Orchestra masters the variety of Shostakovich textures here is part of the key to the success of this pair of symphonies. These two pieces do not have the moods one would expect. The Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70, was written just as World War II was ending; in place of the desired and planned heroic celebration, Shostakovich delivered a light, almost Mozartian work, hardly reflecting the chaos that surrounded the composer except perhaps in the oddly nervous finale. Although there is nothing terribly progressive about it, the work helped put Shostakovich in hot water once again with Soviet authorities. It is almost as if Shostakovich felt ill-equipped to deal with the tragedies of the war until he came to the Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93, of 1953, after he had survived...
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