Visions of Sound BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER - Kirill Petrenko
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‘It is an incredible drama of the soul’ - this is how Kirill Petrenko, Chief Conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker, describes Dmitri Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony. And the Ninth and Tenth also bear vivid witness to Shostakovich's confrontation with the Stalinist regime - and his self-assertion. Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings is now releasing the recordings of Symphonies 8-10 as the orchestra's second major hardcover edition with Kirill Petrenko.
Musically, each of the three symphonies is a world of its own - what unites them is the desire for freedom: sometimes whispered behind closed doors, sometimes ironically distorted, sometimes shouted out. In this way, Shostakovich's Eighth delivered a forced, smiling tragedy to an authority hungry for patriotic hymns.
With his Ninth Symphony, the composer performed a surprising about-turn, so that he had to remain silent as a symphonist until after Stalin's death - in order to survive himself.
After Shostakovich's death, the Tenth burst out of him immediately - after an eight-year creative break.
Kirill Petrenko describes the work as the ‘greatest liberation in his artistic oeuvre after the Fifth’.The edition contains the recordings made during the coronavirus pandemic on two CDs and a Blu-ray disc.
They are accompanied by an interview film with Kirill Petrenko and in-depth texts on Shostakovich's work.
The edition was designed by the artist Thomas Demand. His photographs symbolise the field of tension in which Shostakovich created his works: the oppressively uniform row of iron lockers on the outside, and photographs of flowers from Moscow's Gorky Park on the inside.
Artists
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Kirill Petrenko
Genre
Classical Music
Titles
CD1:
Symphony No. 8, Op. 65 (1:00:58)
CD2:
Symphony No. 9, Op. 70 (26:02)
Symphony No. 10, Op. 93 (51:00)
Blu-ray Disc:
Concert Videos - All recordings in high-definition video
Interview Film - Kirill Petrenko (22 min)
High Resolution Audio - All recordings in lossless Studio Master Quality
Product
1 Blu-ray disc
2 CDs
Specials
With download code for high-resolution audio files for the recordings + 7-day ticket for the Digital Concert Hall of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
