Valery Gergiev – Alto CD https://altocd.com Classical Music and Nostalgia CDs Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:46:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Mahler: Symphony No.7 https://altocd.com/product/mahler-symphony-no-7/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:45:56 +0000 https://amuletts.com/altocd/?post_type=product&p=52374 London Symphony Orchestra Valery Gergiev

Catalogue Number:ALC 1409
Number of Discs: 1
Date/Runtime:DDD, 2008 TIME 71:58
Barcode: 5055354414091

]]> [BBC Music Magazine’s Disc of the Month]: ‘Right from the start, with those dark, dragging rhythms, there’s a sense that something special is afoot here … Gergiev charts the whole labyrinthine course with thrilling assurance [whilst] the virtuosity and sensitivity of the L.S.O – is a continual exhilarating delight.’
’ [The Times]: “This is a terrific, gripping performance from Gergiev and the L.S.O of Mahler’s Seventh, an edge-of-the-seat experience … Gergiev brings an almost palpable darkness, fear and mystery to the three central movements, giving an impression, in the central scherzo, of hot, tormenting laser lights darting in from all angles, and he imbues the outer movements with an almost frenzied momentum.”

Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E minor

  • [1] I. Langsam (Adagio) – Allegro con fuoco 20:52
  • [2] II. Nachtmusik: Allegro moderato 13:48
  • [3] III. Scherzo: Schattenhaft 9:12
  • [4] IV. Nachtmusik: Andante amoroso 11:50
  • [5] V. Rondo-Finale: Allegro ordinario –
    Allegro moderato ma energico 16:14
]]> Shostakovich: Symphonies No.9 & No.15 Festive Overture; Scherzo Op.1 https://altocd.com/product/shostakovich-symphonies-no-9-scherzo-op-1/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:45:31 +0000 https://amuletts.com/altocd/?post_type=product&p=52304 Catalogue Number: ALC 1362 Number of Discs: 1 Date/Runtime: Time: 78:18, DDD & Stereo, 2012/ 1973/ 1983 Barcode:]]>
“(9th) They capture not only the joyful irreverence but the sense of danger lurking beneath … solo wind playing is excellent throughout…brilliantly played and vividly recorded” (CD Review) (15th) “with a superbly vivid Fifteenth, generally hard-driven à la Mravinsky but far more convincingly poised … first movement goes at a frightening lick, deserting the toy shop for the asylum, the slow movement lacks only the very last ounce of desolation and the finale, always intelligently conceived, is suitably emotive at the close. The sound has immediacy and enough depth.” (Gramophone)

  • [1] Festive Overture, Op.96 *** 6:01
  • [2] Scherzo for Orchestra in F sharp minor, Op.1 *** 5:01

    • Symphony No.9 in E-flat major * [26:28]

  • [3] I. Allegro 5:27
  • [4] II. Moderato 7:13
  • [5] III. Presto 2:53
  • [6] IV. Largo 4:14
  • [7] V. Allegretto – Allegro 6:40

    • Symphony No.15 in A major, Op.141 (1971) ** [40:25]

  • [8] I. Allegretto 7:06
  • [9] II. Adagio – Largo – Adagio – Largo 13:52
  • [10] III. Allegretto 4:15
  • [11] IV. Adagio – Allegretto – Adagio – Allegretto 15:10
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