the more I listen to Andris Nelsons ongoing Shostakovich-projects with Bostonsymfonikerna emerges all the more clearly his strong identification with the young and even oförstörde the composer. And his love for the symphonic dramas that Shostakovich later, during the Stalinerans terror, staged in order to keep any of it unspoiled by life.
in the series interprets the Nelsons, the sixth symphony would be a long-drawn awakening from a stupor – to a spring-like unruly sense of youth. In the mighty seventh symphony, the process is performed in the other direction, in the famous first movement with its crazy ”invasionstema” that just grows and grows. For Nelson, it is not a peaceful normality, which is ruined here, but a virgin. A face that had never previously grimaserat. Terrible to hear!
Best tracks: Symphony No. 7
Read more music reviews by Martin Nyström, for example, about how Kristian Bezuidenhout interprets Haydn as an English park.
