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Label:
   Exton - http://www.octavia.co.jp/
Serial:
   OVCL-00169
Title:
   Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 - Fedoseyev
Description:
   Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad"

Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Fedoseyev (conductor)
Details:
  
Genre:
   Classical - Orchestral
Content:
   Stereo/Multichannel
Media:
   Hybrid
Recording type:
  
Recording info:
   Recording date: 13-15 Dec. 1996
Recording Location: The Large Hall of Moscow Radio

Executive Producer: Hiroshi Hirai (Pony Canyon, Inc)
Producer: Tomoyoshi Ezaki
Recording Director: Tomoyoshi Ezaki
Assistant Director: Miyuki Ito
Balance Engineer: Tomoyoshi Ezaki
Assistant Engineers: Alexander Karasev, Lubomir Novacek, Michal Pekarek
Editor: Yoshihiko Mazda
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Review by Dinko June 14, 2004 (1 of 1 found this review helpful)
Performance:  Sonics:
A spacious, wide-ranging soundstage is the set for this Shostakovich 7th by Fedosseyev, a reissue from a 1996 recording.

Lush, warm strings are a definite bonus over the Yablonsky and Gergiev discs.

The sound is clear, detailed (if not quite as much as the Yablonsky recording) and rarely congested. Its naturally reverberant setting with perfect orchestral balances makes this Shostakovich 7th a sonic winner.
Add superb playing by the Moscow orchestra, the violins of which produce a most gorgeous sound (at the beginning of the third movement for example). The woodwinds may be nice and lovely on the top, but beneath their tone lies a menacing, suspensful style of playing which adds to the tension of the score. There is a very unnerving restraint to the whole performance. Fedosseyev's restraint gives the symphony a really cold and scary sound.
Listed as a 5.0 channel surround SACD, there is a good amount of bass allowing the listener to follow the lower range of the orchestra which so often in this work provides the pulse and mood of the score beneath the more obvious thematic material.
Tightly controlled rythms by Fedosseyev, spot-on coordination between the orchestra's sections make this the most rewarding performance of the Shostakovich 7 on SACD so far. There are a couple of small brass kacks - minor details which in no way detract from the experience.

Rear channels have just enough data to increase the sound stage around the listener - they are less audible than on the average Decca/Philips album for example.

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