Original 2019 EU 2CD set. On DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON label. Catalogue No: 483 6728. Barcode: 028948367283.
Andris Nelsons is the Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and new Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. With both appointments, and in leading a pioneering alliance between these two esteemed institutions, he is firmly underlined as one of the most renowned, exciting and innovative conductors on the international scene today. Nelsons and the BSO continue the acclaimed cycle with the 'Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7', complemented by two other works by Shostakovich, the 'Suite From the Incidental Music to King Lear, Op. 58a' and the 'Festive Overture, Op. 96'. The goal is a complete Shostakovich cycle on Deutsche Grammophon with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
