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~ Dmitri Shostakovich (Artist), Mstislav Rostropovich (Conductor), London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
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  • Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich
  • Audio CD (5 Aug 2002)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Lso Live
  • ASIN: B00006C2D8
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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On this CD:
  1. Symphony No. 11, 'The Year 1905' in G minor
    Composed by Dmitry Shostakovich
    Conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich

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The 13th recording on the excellent budget-price label LSO Live features as grim a work as the 20th century produced. Shostakovich's Symphony No.11 was inspired by what history books call the Revolution of 1905, a tumultuous time in Russian history sparked by the shooting of hundreds of demonstrators by the Tsar's troops on January 9 of that year (the original Bloody Sunday). The massacre was followed by strikes, insurrections and mutinies including that on the Battleship Potemkin. Poignant folksongs that arose during the period appear in the symphony and would have meant much in 1957 to the first Russian audiences among which was young Mstislav Rostropovich, now conducting for the first time on this label. He fashions fragile suspense in the bleak first movement Palace Square, the bare fifths yawning like deserted alleys, the bugle calls pre-echoing Britten, the flutes idly whistling a revolutionary tune. The second, Ninth of January, follows like a whirlwind, delivering another folk melody, which is firstly a threatening whisper, latterly a baying horde. The third movement, In Memoriam, features the LSO's beautiful grey violas over a padding bass in a flowing mournful song about the fallen. The fourth, Alarm, is alert and poundingly rhythmic, beginning with a bracing staccato call to arms, then banging out the symphony's collected themes with the sort of incessant bombardment that makes war insufferable, and ending with an exciting tutti onslaught pierced by military side-drumming and an unstopped bell mixing major and minor overtones in final, ringing, tumultuous discords.

One senses the conductor's enormous vitality on the podium--the orchestra was keen to capture Rostropovich live. Two performances in March 2002 contribute on the grounds that the likelihood of a cougher coughing twice in the same place is a million to one. Keen ears may detect the splicing. A thumpingly magnificent reminder of a calamitous year in history.--Rick Jones



Gramophone Magazine, September, 2002

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5.0 out of 5 stars Red blooded playing..., 22 Oct 2002
By Steve (Huddersfield, U.K.) - See all my reviews
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I came to this recording shortly after listening to Rostropovich's earlier version of the work with the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington (on Teldec). The differences are not as great as I would have expected; this is very much heart on sleeve Shostakovitch, and both discs give us performances played for all it's worth. The Teldec has a more spacious recording, but the LSO Live taping is technically their best so far (they record live in the Barbican Hall, London-not a very sympathetic acoustic). In the last movement, though, I think the London players have the edge in sheer,well,-power! And on the last chord, as before, Rostropovich lets the bells play on, an effect some critics don't like but I think adds to the fevered atmosphere.

An incredible bargain. (Try getting a seat for that price)!

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars In short order, my favorite performance of this work., 13 Sep 2003
By Bob Zeidler (Charlton, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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I first experienced this work many years ago, when Capitol Records (now part of EMI) released an LP set by Leopold Stokowski and the Houston Symphony Orchestra (still a favorite of mine, and presently available in well-mastered CD form from EMI). In subsequent years, I added performances by Bernard Haitink, Rudolf Barshai, and Rostropovich himself, when he had been the conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra. But it took only one hearing of this new "LSO Live" performance, with Rostropovich conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, for it to go to the top of this rather small pile of Shostakovich 11th Symphony recordings.

Shostakovich's 11th Symphony is a rather long, and very brooding, work. Ostensibly written to commemorate the 1905 Russian Revolution, its date of writing also suggests that it might contain one of his frequent "hidden messages," this one as a personal response to the Hungarian uprising and subsequent Soviet invasion of 1956. But perhaps it's best to ignore this highly-specific subtext, and simply accept the work as a more universal "commemoration to the victims of oppression everywhere."

Some Shostakovich symphonies (certainly the 1st, 5th, 8th and 10th, and perhaps the 6th and 9th) are heard in the concert hall much more frequently than this work, or for that matter, his other "war" symphony, the 7th ("Leningrad") Symphony. It follows – largely, anyway – that this work is not nearly as frequently recorded.

But, unless you are one who needs multiple versions of everything, this Rostropovich/LSO recording is likely to be the only one you'll ever need. Recorded live, it is, in a word, stunning. In fact, given its dynamic range – with much of the opening "Palace Square" Adagio performed barely above the level of a whisper – one has a hard time believing that it is in fact a live recording. Applause at the end (and surely it must have been overwhelming) has been edited out, and there is not even the smallest hint of audience noise; not a cough, not a candy-wrapper crinkling, absolutely nothing! I'm in awe just of the audience!

Rostropovich, one of Shostakovich's closest friends, understands this work (as well as the Russian themes that Shostakovich "encoded" into it) as well as anyone alive, if not better. Now, at age 75 (and several years after his National Symphony Orchestra recording), he seems to be "just hitting his stride."

The tension throughout is palpable. In the opening Adagio, and again in the 3rd movement Adagio, Rostropovich achieves the near-impossible in terms of creation of brooding intensity; the opening Adagio is nearly 4 minutes longer than those on my other versions without the slightest loss of tension. And at those points in the work where the tension does break and the full orchestral forces are "left off the leash," the LSO responds like the virtuoso orchestra it is.

Truly a performance not soon forgotten. And at the very nice "LSO Live" mid-price common to this series.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing bargain, 2 April 2003
This is the first Shostakovich I have ever bought, and on the strentgh of this CD I will definitely be buying more. This is also the first LSO Live CD I have bought, and it truly is a fantastic bargain.

The performance vividly brings to life the bleak nature of the work and on the whole is a perfectly judged reading which never breaks the spell created by the darkly subtle opening. The musicians shine through the average sound quality and the CD partly recreate what must have an incredible live experience, ( what CD has ever come close to the thrill of being in the same room as a full orchestra?).

Fantastic...I would have happily paid a few pounds more.

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