A story about Shostakovich, related by Mariss Jansons.On the homepage today, I have a piece about a great musician, Mariss Jansons. A conductor from Latvia, he died in recent weeks. In the last ...

Jansons, whom BBC Music Magazine has called one of the top conductors of our time, recently completed recording all the Shostakovich symphonies. This massive undertaking took nearly 20 years to ...

Jansons would have us understand Shostakovich’s subtitle-“a Soviet artist’s reply to just criticism”-as a subliminal mockery of his Stalinist oppressors disguised as a gesture of creative ...

They would sense the shape and urgency of Shostakovich's symphonic argument, but would they feel what the likes of Rostropovich and Svetlanov always told us about the infinite suffering of the late ...

Jansons stressed, this is “my method for all,” whether conducting Beethoven, Shostakovich or Bartok. To his credit, Jansons combined approaching music on a high intellectual level with an ...

SHOSTAKOVICH: SYMPHONY NO. 5; JAZZ SUITES Nos. 1 & 2; TAHITI TROT (TEA FOR TWO) The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Mariss Jansons You have to like an album that juxtaposes Shostakovich&#… ...

Maestro Jansons's recording of the Shostakovich symphonic cycle, completed in 2005 with several orchestras, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, is considered a standard among recent ...

I said that the Shostakovich Fifth from Jansons ought to be great—with this caveat: “Background” is not musical destiny, just as it’s not other kinds of destiny. As I have mentioned before in these ...

The first of them came when Mariss Jansons brought his Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to the Barbican with a performance of Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony that confounded my long-held ...

Mastery was always going to be the overriding virtue of Mariss Jansons's latest appearance; his many visits to London with one or other of his continental superbands guarantee nothing less. But would ...