Aaron Rabushka wrote:

>To experience the magic of the DSCH 15th Symphony get the recording
>conducted by the composer's son Maksim Shostakovich.  Some of the playing
>is a little rough (the score doesn't give anybody a place to hide), but the
>transcendency of the music is there.

Mravinsky (Leningrad PO, 26th May, 1976, a Melodiya CD).  It's surely
another form of transcendency, but what a performance!  Quite fast, bitter,
ironical, violent...  until the magic of the final bars.  Sounds like the
battlefield...  after the battle.

Simon Corley
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