Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 6 & 15 Buy:320kbps MP3 A beautifully illustrated series of

A beautifully illustrated series of stories bringing to life all that is wonderful about the instruments of the orchestra

and combines the emotive force of his later Missa Solemnis with the theatre of a Bach Passion

it's a mixed piece and there are weird flaws and edges but so there are in the Ninth Symphony

Why isn't this piece played

I think it is completely heaven

Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 6 & 15 Buy:320kbps MP3 A beautifully illustrated series ofGianandrea Noseda London Symphony Orchestra Following the success of his Fifth Symphony, all eyes were on Shostakovich to create a work that would measure up to its predecessor. The Sixth was originally intended as an immense musical monument to Lenin, to be woven with heroic melodies and folk songs. Instead his audiences were surprised to hear a quite different resulta contemplative, restrained first movement that morphs puzzlingly into a ferocious