Symphonie Nr. 10

"It certainly whets the appetite for more music by this composer, and it's splendidly played here. The sonics are typically vivid, with rich bass, a bright top, and plenty of impact from the winds and heavy brass. Horns and cymbals could have been slightly more present, however. Not a perfect release, then, but a very good one nonetheless".

"Andris Nelsons startet wohl zu einem Zyklus - zeigt ein paar Schwächen, aber insgesamt ... Ich rate zu! auch wenn Andris Nelsons noch zeigen muss, ob er sich aus dem langen Schatten seiner Idole [Karajan] wirklich heraus traut oder nicht".

"Don't press play without checking the volume levels first: Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra begin their new Shostakovich series with the Passacaglia from the opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and its first chord is genuinely cataclysmic ... It at once recalibrates your ears and sets the tone for the ensuing performance of the 10th Symphony".

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"This performance goes right to the top. Not since the amazing mono Ancerl recording has there been a version of this work of such intensity, such expressive urgency ... It's all captured in gloriously vivid, present sonics by the Naxos engineers".

"Man behøver ikke kende det store til Sjostakovitjs kodesprog for at høre, at hans 10. Symfoni er en barsk omgang. Slet ikke, når Nelsons har så godt styr på spændingskurverne i den voldsomme musik, som det er tilfældet her. Den orkestrale tonestorm er imidlertid så velordnet og kultiveret, at biddet af og til bliver lidt tandløst".

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"Välspelat och vackert. Men lyckas man förmedla Sjostakovitjs visioner? Nej, långt ifrån. Främför allt saknas det spänning och drama. Vill man ha den ryska mästaren som bakgrundsmusik så är denna cd perfekt men den förmedlar inte verkets dynamiska omfång alls".

"If you want to experience a Shostakovich Ten as beautiful sound, this is the recording for you, but it's not by any means the full story".

"Paavo Järvi's approach adds a few expressive nudges of its own leading up to a clearly balanced and spring-heeled first-movement development ... slightly lightweight quality of Cincinatti's disciplined orchestra".

"Nelsons strukturiert das Bostoner Orchester vortrefflich ... Das klingt wahrhaft eindringlich, gross, unmittelbar, aber nie nach billigem Effekt-Kino. Die vielen Wechsel, die klugen Staffelungen im Finale, gelingen in aller Drastik, bissig, kernig, mit genügend Puste bis zu den einzelnen Gipfeln".

"Vurdering: BBC music orchestral choice" - "A peerless Shostakovich Tenth ... The pacing, the atmosphere, the expressive space for stricken solos and the sheer electric charge of the gallops are up there with the best".

"Recording of the month: If you want a testimony to what it was we lost when Mariss Jansons died, listen to this disc. In big symphonic works Jansons always had a flair for bringing out both the long singing line and the key details, but this is exceptional ... What I'm left with is a sense of wonder, and even a kind of joy at the way both Shostakovich and Jansons are able to express and contain such dark, troubling emotions".

"Vurdering: BBC orchestral choice" - "Petrenko's RLPO strings and woodwind support him to the hilt".