Review Examples: (5th):"However committed you are to any other interpretation, his demands to be heard."(Gramophone);(6th/14th): BBC Music Magazine Disc of the Month Nov.2014. (8th): Mravinsky's live recording of the Eighth of capital importance and demands to be heard: the Leningrad audience is struck dumb by it." (Gramophone). (10th): deeply moving.... Maxim Shostakovich should be compared with Haitink for noble sobriety" (Gramophone). (11th): "A superb performance with excellent sound makes this a benchmark recording and my top CD choice of the year. Shostakovich fans ignore this release at their peril !" (MusicWeb). (13th): So it's significant this is once again made available, especially in such a memorably intense performance." (Gramophone). (15th) "a superbly vivid Fifteenth, generally hard-driven à la Mravinsky but here far more convincingly poised" (Gramophone)
Tracks: 1.1 Symphony No. 1 Op. 10 1.2 Symphony No. 3 Op. 20 'First of May' 2.1 Symphony No. 2 Op. 14 2.2 Theme ; Variations in B Flat Major Op. 3 2.3 Symphony No. 12 in D minor Op. 112 'The Year 1917' 3.1 Symphony No. 4 in C minor Op. 43 4.1 Music from the Gadfly 4.2 Symphony No. 5 in D minor Op. 47 5.1 Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54 5.2 Symphony No. 14 in G minor, Op. 135 6.1 Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60 7.1 Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65 8.1 Festive Overture Op. 96 8.2 Scherzo for Orchestra in F Sharp minor Op. 1 8.3 Symphony No. 9 in E Flat Major 8.4 Symphony No. 15 in a Minor Op. 141 (1971) 9.1 Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93 10.1 Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 'The Year 1905' 11.1 Incidental Music for King Lear, Op. 58A 11.2 Symphony No. 13 'Babi Yar' 12.1 Bonus Disc of the Live Legendary World Premiere (1954) of Symphony No. 10 in E minor Op. 93 with the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra/ Mravinsky
