Name: Dmitri Shostakovich: Complete Symphonies & Concertos
Year: 2013-2014
Genre: Classical
Directed by: Don Kent, Reiner E. Moritz (documentary)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Cast: Veronika Dzhioeva (soprano), Mikhail Petrenko (bass), Timur Martynov (trumpet), Alena Baeva (violin), Vadim Repin (violin), Mario Brunello (cello), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Denis Matsuev (piano) , Daniil Trifonov (piano), St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre Chorus and Orchestra

Description:

Nobody is better suited to undertake such a challenge than Valery Gergiev and his Mariinsky Orchestra. Over a period of a year all 15 6 Symphonies and Concertos have been recorded at Salle Pleyel in Paris. What an adventure for the artists and the big production team! Never before in the history of television has something like this been undertaken including the very first "Ring" for television at Bayreuth.

Dmitri Shostakovich is arguably one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. To understand his music one needs to see it in the context of his life, his social environment, the political situation, the unbelievable brutality with which the Communist Party enforced its ideological credo and the subtle ways with which Shostakovich succeeded in combining his innermost thoughts with the demands of Socialist Realism. He was a man of many faces. And beyond any doubt Dmitri Shostakovich was a musical genius.

Recorded live from the Salle Pleyel, Paris, 2013-2014.

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
COMPLETE SYMPHONIES AND CONCERTOS

Blu-ray # 1
  - Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10
  - Symphony No. 2 in B major, "To October", for orchestra with mixed chorus, Op. 14
  - Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43
  - Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70
  - Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op. 141
  - Concerto for Piano, String Orchestra and Trumpet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35
    Daniil Trifonov, piano; Timur Martynov, trumpet
  - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in F major, Op. 102
    Denis Matsuev, piano

Blu-ray # 2
  - Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, "The First of May", for orchestra with mixed chorus, Op. 20
  - Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54
  - Symphony No. 10 in E minor, op. 93
  - Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, "Babi Yar", for bass, bass chorus and orchestra, Op. 113
    Mikhail Petrenko, bass; Male Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre
  - Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 107
    Gautier Capuçon, violoncello
  - Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra No. 2 in G major, Op. 126
    Mario Brunello, violoncello

Blu-ray # 3
  - Symphony No. 7 in C major, "Leningrad", Op. 60
  - Symphony No. 11 in G minor, "The Year 1905", Op. 103
  - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 (originally published as Op. 99)
    Vadim Repin, violin
  - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in C sharp minor, Op. 129
    Alena Baeva, violin

Blu-ray # 4
  - Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
  - Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65
  - Symphony No. 12 in D minor, "The Year 1917", Op. 112
  - Symphony No. 14, for soprano, bass and chamber orchestra, Op. 135
    Veronika Dzhioeva, soprano; Mikhail Petrenko, bass
  - Special Feature Dmitri Shostakovich - A Man of Many Faces. A Film by Reiner Moritz (2015)

Issued: United States | Arthaus Musik
Duration: 03:55:33 + 04:05:30 + 03:27:17 + 03:22:16 + 00:55:52 (Documentary)