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Shostakovich: Symphonies 4, 5 & 6

August 26, 2024, 6:00 am

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Klaus Mäkelä, dressed in a wool suit and brown turtleneck, gives a half smile while holding a conductor's baton

These performances are CSO music director designate Klaus Mäkelä’s first Shostakovich on record and shows off the Oslo Philharmonic’s pedigree in the music of Shostakovich, one it learned with former chief conductor Mariss Jansons. Jansons studied with Yevgeny Mravinsky, the Principal Conductor of the Leningrad (now St Petersburg) Philharmonic, the man who premiered no fewer than five of Shostakovich’s symphonies. …