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London Shostakovich Orchestra

Conductor: Christopher Cox

Leader: Jonathan Lee



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Next concert: Saturday, 22nd May 2010

Programme:

  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, op.10
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, op.70

The London Shostakovich Orchestra's May 2010 concert will be take place at St. Cyprian's Church, Glentworth Street, London NW1.

Recordings

Many of our concerts since May 2001 have been recorded by Dunelm Records and the CDs, which are produced and packaged to a professional standard, are available to order direct from our website.

This singular Fifth Symphony is worth hearing... There is undoubtedly real intensity throughout; tremolos and crescendos can be truly electrifying, lower strings give us the definitive clod-hopping article at the beginning of the scherzo and the brass, capped by a powerful first trumpeter, could at times be Svetlanov's boys. Many a more sophisticated middle-of-the-roader has conveyed less of the Symphony's gritty spirit than this.

BBC Music, of the LShO's live concert recording of the 5th Symphony.

This account conveys the symphony's tragic desperation much more tellingly than most 'professional' recordings to have appeared over the last two decades...part of an ongoing project that, live and on disc, clearly deserves support.

International Record Review of the LShO's live concert recording of the 4th Symphony.

Contacts

If you're interested in playing in the orchestra, or in coming to hear us play, please contact us, preferably by filling out the contact form, or by sending a message to Martin Watts.


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