Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6 [Hybrid SACD]

Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6 [Hybrid SACD]

Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6 [Hybrid SACD]
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Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich
Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski
Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD
CD Release Date: 2006-03-21
Music Label: Pentatone
Soundtracks:
  1. Allegretto-Allegro Non Troppo
  2. Allegro
  3. Lento-Largo
  4. Allegro Molto-Largo-Piu Mosso-Presto
  5. Largo
  6. Allegro
  7. Presto

Music reviews of Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6 [Hybrid SACD]

Music Review: Gorgeous Playing, Less Gorgeous Sound, Pale Interpretation
Rating: 3 Stars

I have been increasingly an admirer of the conducting of Vladimir Jurowski (who is, as most know, the son of veteran conductor Mikhail Jurowski, himself a Shostakovian of note) and fully expected to like this recording. But to some extent any positive response is tempered by what I perceive as an emotional reticence on the part of the conductor to let this music speak fully. This is no fault of the Russian National Orchestra, surely one of the world's finest. It could to some extent be a function of the CD's recorded sound which, although rich, lush and lifelike, tends to have a bass-laden autumnal glow around it that cuts into the music's immediacy. (I did not listen to the SACD layer. My views are based on listening to the plain vanilla CD layer only. It is possible that the SACD layer might reveal things I couldn't hear.)

I guess I could sum up my complaints in one sentence: These performances are too civilized, too restrained, too polite. I think I know why Jurowski got this effect -- he was going for suppressed, rather than extrovert, anguish in those sections that contain that emotion. And to some extent he obtains it. But where are the rough and tumble moments, the raw emotions that should come rushing to the surface? Listen to the Allegro of the Sixth Symphony. It is all silken bustling, but it is also lifeless, even in those passages that have the urgent brass interjections. Listen to those wind portamenti; they are so perfectly played that one doesn't get the sense of emotional stress that surely Shostakovich intended. Instead, one admires the player's ability to play them smoothly. As for the slow movements, there is too little life in them. They trudge, not because of angst but because they have no inner rhythmic tension.

The recorded sound is partly to blame. The dynamic range is extremely wide and when one cranks up one's volume to hear the soft passages, the loud passages become almost unbearably so. And no matter what volume one uses, there is still that fuzzy nimbus around the sound so that there is little linearity, little cut-glass clarity.

Scott Morrison
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