Shostakovich: Symphony... - Bernard Haitink - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra enjoyed a long andintensive artistic collaboration, which came to an abrupt end with Haitink’s death in October 2021. BR-KLASSIK now presents outstanding and previously unreleased live recordings of their concerts from pastyears. This recording of Shostakovich's Fifteenth Symphony documents a concert given in February 2015 inMunich’s Philharmonie im Gasteig.Haitink first conducted a Munich subscription concert in 1958, and from then on was a regular guest withthe Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – either in the Herkulessaal of the Residenz or in the Philharmonieim Gasteig. This congenial collaboration lasted for more than six decades. The orchestra musicians andsingers enjoyed working with him just as much as the BR sound engineers. As an interpreter of thesymphonic repertoire, and especially that of the German-Austrian Late Romantic period, Haitink was held inhigh esteem throughout the world. With him, the symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich were always in thebest of hands. Haitink’s driving principle was to make the sound architecture of a musical composition, withits complex interweaving, transparently audible;; extreme sensitivity of sound was combined with a clearlystructured interpretation of the score.As the last symphony in the oeuvre of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, the Fifteenth is a kind ofsymphonic conclusion. Although the composer set out to write a 'happy symphony' and this epithet hassince become commonplace, everything cheerful in it has a dimension that is exaggerated into the bizarreand grotesque. The work also contains musical references, for example to Rossini's 'William Tell' overture,Wagner's 'The Ring of the Nibelung' (the so-called 'fate motif') and 'Tristan and Isolde', and Alban Berg's'Wozzeck'. Quotations from Shostakovich's own earlier works also appear. The symphony was composedin 1971 in Repino, a suburb of St Petersburg. The world premiere took place on January 8, 1972, under thebaton of the composer’s son Maxim.

Label: Br Klassik | Origin: Holland