COMPOSERS: Shostakovich
LABELS: Music & Arts
WORKS: Symphonies Nos 5, 6 & 7
PERFORMER: Philadelphia Orchestra; NBC SO/Leopold Stokowski
CATALOGUE NO: CD-1232 (1939-42)
In Shostakovich, Stokowski cultivates an uncommon strain of seductive lyricism. Excitement in the Fifth and Sixth is limited by timid timpani playing, while in the Seventh the sound is constricted. David Breckbill