Berliner Philharmoniker & Kirill Petrenko - Shostakovich: Symphonien 8-10
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Kirill Petrenko describes Dmitri Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony as an “incredible drama of the soul”. The composer wrote it at the risk of his life during the Second World War: between threatened existence and Stalinist censorship. The Ninth and Tenth also bear powerful witness to Shostakovich’s confrontation with the regime – and his self-assertion. Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings now releases the recordings of Symphonies 8-10 as the orchestra’s second major hardcover edition with principal conductor Kirill Petrenko.

Musically, each of the three symphonies is a world of its own – what unites them is the desire for freedom: once whispered behind closed hands, once ironically distorted, once shouted out. Shostakovich’s Eighth delivered a forced smiling tragedy to the authority craving patriotic hymns. And despite all the disguises, the work was banned a few years later. With his Ninth Symphony, the composer then made a surprising turnaround, so that he had to remain silent as a symphonist until after Stalin’s death – in order to survive himself. Not only the tradition-heavy numbering of the Ninth, but also the fact that the war had been won led the people and officials of the Soviet Union to hope for a gigantic heroic celebration. Instead of redemption in the end of the war, Shostakovich saw the countless victims – and the approach of the next catastrophe. In the distancing tone of Viennese classicism and with grotesque cheerfulness, his Ninth therefore depicts a circus world that held up a distorting mirror to the regime.

The Tenth burst out of Shostakovich – after an eight-year hiatus – immediately after Stalin’s death. Kirill Petrenko describes the work in which the composer makes himself the protagonist as the “greatest liberation in his artistic work after the Fifth”: his monogram in tones – D-Es-C-H – triumphs in a fierce battle over the mighty machinery of the dictatorship. The hope for freedom that stands at the end of this symphony holds great topicality as a musical message.

The edition contains the recordings made during the Corona pandemic on two CDs as well as a Blu-ray. They are accompanied by an interview film with Kirill Petrenko and in-depth texts on Shostakovich’s work. In the foreword, the chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker also explains his attachment to the composer’s work. The edition was designed by Thomas Demand. His photographs symbolise the field of tension in which Shostakovich created his works: on the outside, the oppressively uniform row of iron lockers, on the inside, photographs of flowers from Moscow’s Gorky Park.

Weight: 0.7 kg
4260306184216
2023
LABEL: Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings
Symphonic, Classical
+ 2 CD-Audio

Concert videos
22-minute interview with Kirill Petrenko
Download code for audio files of the album in 24-bit/96 kHz
Voucher: Digital Concert Hall 7-Day-Ticket

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