Lossless Album - CD Box Set

'A winning Shostakovich disc from Gergiev and the Mariinsky... this is a very fine performance of the Tenth and probably as good a performance of the negligible Third as you're likely to hear... Gergiev's performance maps the eventful contours of this work [Symphony No 10] with great sensitivity. The melancholy first movement unfolds with a palpable sense of dread and sorrow, the second movement crackles with violent energy, and the third has all the sardonic wit of Mahler's night-music interludes. The last movement builds to its wild celebratory final pages with the proper sense of inevitability. Throughout, the Mariinsky players give their all, fired up no doubt by the presence of a live audience. This is a very, very fine Tenth Symphony, certainly among the best in SACD.''

Tracklisting:

01 - Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'The First of May', Op. 20 - I. Allegretto
02 - Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'The First of May', Op. 20 - II. Allegro
03 - Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'The First of May', Op. 20 - I. Moderato - 'On the very first May Day'
04 - Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93 - I. Moderato
05 - Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93 - II. Allegro
06 - Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93 - III. Allegretto
07 - Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93 - IV. Andante - Allegro