Sunday 23 August 2009

Who Knows Where The Time Goes ?

This will only be a short post since the BBC music magazine cover disk for this month is a performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No 11, a work I have already blogged about. It is played here by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by new principle conductor Kirill Karabits. Perhaps the most noteworthy comparison to make with the commercial recording of the work I have by the LSO under Rostropovich is in the timings; Karabits completes the journey in a sprightly 60 minutes compared to the stately 72 minutes of Rostropovich. This reading doesn't feel in any way rushed though and is a respectable enough performance conveying the universality of the theme and not just the focus on the year 1905.