Shostakovich: Symphony #4 - Mariss Jansons/Bavarian Radio Symphony
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Music CD Cover Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2004-11-02 Music Label: EMI Classics Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Shostakovich: Symphony #4 - Mariss Jansons/Bavarian Radio Symphony Album
Free Music Review: One of the best entries in Jansons' Shostakovich cycle
Hit: 4 Stars
The two reviewers below are so well-meaning that I feel grouchy pointing out a few things. First, the Shostakovich Fourth doesn't have a history of great readings. Quite the opposite. Esteemed conductors on the order of Simon Rattle, Andre Previn, Leonard Slatkin, and Eugene Ormandy have failed to find the key to this huge, puzzling work. It's no surprise to me that Mravinsky never undertook to record it (did he ever conduct it?) Although full of fertile ideas, the Fourth is fatally episodic, and the relationship between a dozen thematic groups defies ready understanding. To my ears, this is Shostakovich trying to build the multi-dimensional world of the Mahler ?Thrid in his own idiom but not quite succeeding.
In any event, a great Fourth is hard to find. Both this one, however, and the one from Philadelphia on DG under Whun-Myung Chung feature excellent enginerring and a first-rate orchestra. I think Chung has the edge in energy and dramatic surprise. Jansons tends to be overly cautious in general in his conducting for my tastes. Rhythms are a little foursquare, and the conductor doesn't knit together the loose joints with extra inspiraiton of his own--he tends to be a literalist, not always the best approach to this composer.
In all, a very successful entyr in his often variable Shostakovich cycle for EMI, which has wandered from orchestra to orchestra over the years. I think anyone who bought either the Gergiev, Chung, or Jansons recording would be well served.