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© 2018 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd.
℗ 2018 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd.
Recorded live at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, London, on 13 December 2003.
Producer: Tony Harrison
Engineer: Limo Hearn, Floating Earth
Total playing time: 70:33
Released: March 2018
CD: Shostakovich Symphony No. 7
LPO conducted by Kurt Masur
Shostakovich Symphony No. 7 in C major 'Leningrad', Op. 60
Kurt Masur conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
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“I think it’s quite an exceptional performance... The build up to the catastrophic climax is tremendous”
Stephen Johnson, BBC Record Review, June 2018
"Kurt Masur...[gives] the opening a Beethoven-like nobility and vigour. One may admire all the more how Shostakovich masterfully sets the scene, the music dwindling down to a deep-focus calm out of which emerges the infamous 'invasion' theme, sounding perky and innocent at first but slowly and inexorably building to panic-stricken horror." Four stars
Daniel Jaffé, BBC Music Magazine, May 2018