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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelOeo, Orfeo
UPC4011790987927
eBay Product ID (ePID)5046051372
Product Key Features
FormatCD
Release Year2019
GenreClassical Artists
ArtistShostakovich / Nelsons
Release TitleCity of Birmingham So
Dimensions
Item Height1.09 in
Item Weight0.45 lb
Item Length5.19 in
Item Width5.15 in
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Number of Discs9
NotesAndris Nelsons, today simultaneously Principal Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, was discovered by Orfeo for the album. Christiane Delank, the long-standing artistic director of the label had taken him on to conduct the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in the recordings of the two violin concertos by Dmitri Shostakovich with Arabella Steinbacher and realized that in him one of the great conductors of his generation was maturing, a development that took place at breath-taking pace. When he was entrusted with conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, she won him over for the ambitious projects of a complete recording of the symphonies by Tchaikovsky (the first three symphonies were recorded, but no longer released following Nelsons' departure to Boston) together with symphonic poems and other orchestral works by Richard Strauss and works by Stravinsky and Shostakovich. So, Orfeo had the privilege of documenting on album the Birmingham period, the first major international stage in Andris Nelsons' career.