- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (1 sound file)
- Summary
- Shostakovich's grim Eighth Symphony was written in 1943 and premiered by its dedicatee, Evgeny Mravinsky, whose recordings of the work still stand supreme. Now, Mariss Jansons, who as a young conductor was mentored by Mravinsky, leads his Pittsburgh players in a stellar concert performance recorded live. Orchestral execution is first-rate, and Jansons doesn't smooth over or prettify the hourlong work, soaked in the composer's bitterness about the Nazi and Stalinist brutality that stamped his life with fear and loathing. The long opening Adagio, with its brooding strings and pitiless brass eruptions, is shattering, as are the following grotesque Allegretto and the relentlessly powerful third movement. The final two movements maintain the bleak mood, though the finale tries to recover a measure of joy amid the gloom. Jansons and his orchestra sustain this potent work's intensity throughout, confirming the Eighth as one of the composer's most important and fully realized works. The filler is an interesting rehearsal excerpt.
- Uniform Title
- Symphonies, no. 8, op. 65, C minor
- Alternative Title
- Symphonies, no. 8, op. 65
- Subject
- Event (note)
- Recorded live, Feb. 9-11, 2001, Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on hard copy version record.
- Contents
- Symphony no. 8, op. 65 (1943) in C minor (63:00) -- Mariss Jansons in rehearsal with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (12:41).
- LCCN
- GBAYC0102092
- GBAYC0102093
- GBAYC0102094
- GBAYC0102095
- GBAYC0102096
- GBAYC0102097
- OCLC
- 840329214
- Author
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975.
- Title
Symphony no. 8 [electronic resource] / Shostakovich.
- Imprint
New York, NY : EMI Classics, p2001.
- Playing Time
010300 001241
- Performer
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra ; Mariss Jansons, conductor.
- Event
Recorded live, Feb. 9-11, 2001, Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh.
- Note
Description based on hard copy version record.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Iansons, Marius. Conductor
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Performer
- Other Form:
Source record: Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Symphonies, no. 8, op. 65. Symphony no. 8. New York, NY : EMI Classics, p2001 (OCoLC)49013807
- Other Standard Identifier
GBAYC0102092
GBAYC0102093
GBAYC0102094
GBAYC0102095
GBAYC0102096
GBAYC0102097
- Publisher No.
0724355717658 EMI Classics
- Branch Call Number
eNYPL Music