Shostakovich: Symphonies #3 '1st of May' & #14 - Mariss Jansons, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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Free Music Notes for Shostakovich: Symphonies #3 '1st of May' & #14 - Mariss Jansons, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Free Music Review: Lacking Shostakovich Colour
Hit: 2 Stars
General consensus has confined the Second and Third Symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich to the rubbish bin of his repertoire. Indeed, the composer himself disowned them. There is intrigue and excitement in the Second, but the present third is uneventful and totally unmemorable. Nevertheless, Jansons typically makes it sound convincing.
In the Fourteenth, Shostakovich is, again, not as spectacular as he was in his preceding compositions. Sergey Aleksashkin cannot be faulted however, his Russian is vividly caught and his sonorous tone is perfectly matched to Shostakovich's vocal vision. Larissa Gogolewskaja is not in the same league as her famed accompaniment. Jansons is typically fine, as is his fantastic Bavarian forces.
Again, both these works suffer from a lack of sparkle and are unmemorable. They certainly do not belong in a highlights collection of Shostakovich. For completists only.
Free Music Review: A Great Disc
Hit: 5 Stars
This disc, along with Janson's previous disc of Symphonies Nos. 2 & 12, this disc is a great one to get to "finish" your collection if you lack the lesser-know symphonies.
The performances are clear-cut, and a bit on the dry-eyed side. This works well for the works presented here, though they may not for other Shostakovich symphonies. Symphony No.14 is obviously the main work here, and Jansons really throws some punches. This is a very 'vicious' reading of a vicious symphony.
Janson has, in my opinion, caught up with the competition in the 14th symphony: outdoing Haitink, and even Gramophone Guide's Swensen/Ondine disc.
So if you need Nos. 3 and 14 without getting a repeat, this is nothing to hesitate about!