Elisabeth Soderstrom Ortrun Wenkel Ryszard Karczykowski - Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No 15 From Jewish Folk Poetry Bernard Haitink (15 tracks) +Album Reviews
| 04/10/2003 (5 out of 5 stars) "You dont go to Haitink for extremes or quirkiness, so it may seem odd to recommend his recording of a work which some other conductors play as if it was the epitome of irony and quirkiness. But, just as his Mahler 6th of the early sixties offered a truly symphonic and comprehensible picture of that dark and tragic work, so this Shostakovich 15th brings us profundity mixed with tenderness viewed through sanity. And its that very sanity, which some critics (e.g. the authors of the Good CD Guide) deride, which makes the ethereal ending of the 15th so moving and ...
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