Shostakovich/ BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Symphonies 6 & 9 Format:CD " Second Day of Spring

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Shostakovich/ BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Symphonies 6 & 9 Format:CD " Second Day of SpringBritish Conductor Steven Lloyd Gonzalez makes his debut recording for First Hand Records with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the 6th & 9th Symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich; two of the composer's more enigmatic and intimate works. The scale and breadth of the 6th Symphony's opening nocturnal Largo contrasted with the livelier and shorter 2nd and 3rd movements emphasizes the work's unique form and place in the 20th century symphonic oeuvre.