Since you are interested in Symphony No 8, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem [German Requiem] Harolyn Blackwell, Davis Wilson-Johnson / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Andre Previn [ LSO Live / CD - released 15/Mar/2008 ] 'A performance which emphasis the drama of the piece in high contrasts ... bitingly dramatic ... Altogether outstanding, fresh and revealing' Gramophone |
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Symphonies Nos. 3 & 10 Mariinsky orchestra & chorus, Valery Gergiev [ Mariinsky SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] "In the Third Symphony, the overriding priority is a sense of enthusiasm - one that has to be driven towards the manic, then shadowed by nightmarish visions, and finally colossally reasserted..If this is outstanding, the Tenth is even more so."... |
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Symphony No 5 / Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok The Philadelphia Orchestra / Christoph Eschenbach [ Ondine SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] This release in the successful recording series with The Philadelphia Orchestra and its Music Director Christoph Eschenbach features Dmitri Shostakovich's epic and monumental Fifth Symphony, which has become a signature piece of the orchestra. |
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Symphony No.13 'Babi Yar' op. 113 Taras Shtonda (bass) / Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno / Beethoven Orchester Bonn / Roman Kofman (cond) [ MDG SACD / SACD - released 18/Mar/2007 ] Dmitri Shostakovich was one of Russia's great composers--while rooted in the 19th-century classical epoch, he had a very forward-looking, modernist mindset. This audio DVD features Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony performed by the Beethoven Orchester... |