Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 6 & 15 Buy:Hybrid SACD Le Songe d'Hérode: Scene 1

Le Songe d'Hérode: Scene 1 - Marche Nocturne

Shakespeare’s passion and drama is deftly portrayed through his music

Instead his audiences were surprised to hear a quite different result—a contemplative

recorded live in concert with Sir Antonio Pappano earlier this year

underground sensation of some of it

Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 6 & 15 Buy:Hybrid SACD Le Songe d'Hérode: Scene 1Gianandrea Noseda London Symphony Orchestra Following the success of his Fifth Symphony, all eyes were on Shostakovich to create a work that would measure up to its predecessor. The Sixth was originally intended as an immense musical monument to Lenin, to be woven with heroic melodies and folk songs. Instead his audiences were surprised to hear a quite different resulta contemplative, restrained first movement that morphs puzzlingly into a ferocious