COMPOSERS: Shostakovich
LABELS: DG
WORKS: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
PERFORMER: Haugland, Langridge, Ewing; Opéra Bastille Chorus & Orchestra/Chung
CATALOGUE NO: DG 477 9118
Slightly less idiomatic than Rostropovich’s EMI recording with Vishnevskaya, Chung’s version of Shostakovich’s sardonic tragedy still packs tremendous punch. Michael Scott Rohan