Notes and Editorial Reviews
About Mackerras’s new version of the much-recorded Fifth little needs to be said except: ‘Magnificent!’ That applies too to the technical recording, with sound gradations embracing a pianissimo which makes you hold your breath. Like Muti with the Philadelphia Orchestra (EMI, 1993), Mackerras fills out the disc with the Festive Overture, the RPO’s prodigious woodwind skills enabling him to take it even faster than Muti did.
Performance: 5 (out of 5), Sound: 5 (out of 5)
-- Arthur Jacobs, BBC Music Magazine
About Mackerras’s new version of the much-recorded Fifth little needs to be said except: ‘Magnificent!’ That applies too to the technical recording, with sound gradations embracing a pianissimo which makes you hold your breath. Like Muti with the Philadelphia Orchestra (EMI, 1993), Mackerras fills out the disc with the Festive Overture, the RPO’s prodigious woodwind skills enabling him to take it even faster than Muti did.
Performance: 5 (out of 5), Sound: 5 (out of 5)
-- Arthur Jacobs, BBC Music Magazine Read less
Works on This Recording
1.
Festive Overture, Op. 96 by Dmitri Shostakovich
Conductor:
Sir Charles Mackerras
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1954; USSR
Length: 6 Minutes 0 Secs.
2.
Symphony no 5 in D minor, Op. 47 by Dmitri Shostakovich
Conductor:
Sir Charles Mackerras
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1937; USSR
Length: 46 Minutes 10 Secs.
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